Suchergebnisse

1. Legal practice and cultural diversity : introduction / Roger Ballard. [and others] -- 2. Cultural diversity : challenge and accommodation / Roger Ballard. [and others] -- 3. Indian secular pluralism and its relevance for Europe / Werner Menski -- 4. Legal pluralism and differentiated morality : sharia in Ontario? / Veit Bader -- 5. Transforming to accommodate? : reflections on the sharia debate in Britain / Prakash Shah -- 6. Sharia in a European context / Mathias Rohe -- 7. Objection, your honour! accommodating niqab-wearing women in courtrooms / Natasha Bakht -- 8. The challenge of African customary laws to English legal culture / Gordon Woodman -- 9. Religious challenges to the secularized identity of an insecure polity : a tentative sociology of Québec's 'reasonable accommodation' debate / Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens -- 10. Does the Dutch judiciary pluralize domestic law? / ANDRÉ J. HOEkEmA-- 11. The influence of culture on the determination of damages : how cultural relativism affects the analysis of trauma / Alison Renteln -- 12. Jews and Muslims in France : changing responses to cultural and religious diversity claims / Martine Cohen -- 13. L'affaire du foulard in the shadow of the Strasbourg Court : Article 9 and the public career of the veil in France / Claire de Galembert -- 14. The changing position of religious minorities in English law : the legacy of Begum / Russell Sandberg -- 15. Approaches to diversity in the domestic courts : Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights / Samantha Knights -- 16. Human rights in contexts of ethnic plurality : always a vehicle for liberation? / Roger Ballard.

"Contemporary European societies are multi-ethnic and multi-cultural, certainly in terms of the diversity which has stemmed from the immigration of workers and refugees and their settlement. Currently, however, there is widespread, often acrimonious, debate about 'other' cultural and religious beliefs and practices and limits to their accommodation. This book focuses principally on Muslim families, and concerns how gender relations, and associated questions of (women's) agency, consent and autonomy, have become the focus of political and social commentary, with followers of the religion under constant public scrutiny and criticism. In short, Islam generally and the Muslim family in particular have become highly politicized sites of contestation, and the book considers how and why and with what implications for British multiculturalism, past, present and perhaps future. Practices concerning marriage and divorce are especially controversial and the book includes a detailed overview of the public debate about the application of Islamic legal and ethical norms (Shariʹa) in family law matters, and the associated role of Shariʹa councils, in a British context. The study will be of great interest to international scholars and academics researching the governance of diversity and the accommodation of other faiths including Islam"--Unedited summary from book cover.

"The family lives of immigrants and ethnic minority populations have become central to arguments about the right and wrong ways of living in multicultural societies. While the characteristic cultural practices of such families have long been scrutinized by the media and policy makers, these groups themselves are beginning to reflect on how to manage their family relationships. Exploring case studies from Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Australia, The Family in Question explores how those in public policy often dangerously reflect the popular imagination, rather than recognizing the complex changes taking place within the global immigrant community"--Publisher's description

Is a plural, polyethnic, democratic society possible? This powerful new study examines pluralism in three settings: early states, modern industrial societies, and the contemporary `postmodern' world, each of which vary economically, politically, and in the space they allow difference. Identifying several kinds of pluralism, the author points to a range of choices facing us as we move into the twenty-first century, trying to reconcile the competing demands ofuniversalism and difference.

In this book, based on intensive fieldwork in a major French provincial city (Lyon), Grillo shows how an anthropological perspective enhances our understanding of institutional processes and ideological forces in industrial society, presenting a detailed account of relations between the indigenous French population and immigrant workers and their families of non-French origin. The framework of the book is provided by two linked themes. First, the study shows how the situation of immigrants is represented ideologically by various elements of French society, as well as by the immigrants themselves, in different ways as 'problematic'. Dr Grillo examines this ideological dimension initially by contrasting the discourses of the political Right and Left concerning a range of immigrant 'problems', for example in the fields of housing, family life, school, language use and work. He then shows that not only are there significant ideological differences within both Right and Left, but also similarities between them which stem from certain basic cultural preoccupations of French thought