Dani Joly brings together theoretical and empirical research on ethnic minorities in Eastern and Western Europe showing that their positions and the increased prejudices they encounter share many similarities throughout Europe. Whether racism and exclusion are related to exploitation and power relations, ideologies, or social status, they pervade interactions between the majority society and its ethnic minorities. The history of such ideologies, the upsurge of racism and xenophobia through the general crisis of Western Europe and the various 'arenas' of racism in Germany are respectively studied by Eide, Alt and Blaschke, while Jarabova and Matei/Aluas examine prejudice and racism in the Czech lands and Romania. What international legal and theoretical instruments there are to counteract these trends are explored by Phillips and Rex, while Lloyd focuses on the social practice of anti-racist movements. Finally, Anthias theorises the different categories of disadvantage for ethnic minority women experience. Still looking at women, Campani, Vasquez and Xavier de Brito demonstrate how those establish themselves as social actors in the reception country.

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Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Europe: Past, Present and Future; Ashjorn Eide - Racism within the General Crisis of Western Civilisation; J.Alt - New Racism in Germany; J.Blaschke - The Romany Minority in the Czech Lands; Z.Jarabova - Discrimination and Prejudice: Minorities in Romania; I.Aluas & L.Matei - Minority Rights: Some New Intergovernmental Approaches in Europe; A.Phillips - The Political Sociology of a Multicultural Society; J.Rex - Anti-Racist Mobilisation in France and Britain in the 1970s and 1980s; C.Lloyd - Connecting Ethnicity, 'Race', Gender and Class in Ethnic Relations Research; F.Anthias - Present Trends in Women's Migration: the Emergence of Social Actors; G.Campani - Circe or Penelope? An Analysis of the Problematique of Latin-American Women in Exile; A.Xavier de Brito & A.Vasquez - Index