relations and race relations.Updated with a large proportion of new readings and extendededitorial summaries, the reader analyses the ethnic componentpresent in nationalism, multiculturalism and migration, making itindispensable to those seeking to understand the relevance ofethnicity as one of the most prominent forces in the modern world. Drawing on a wide range of examples, the selections includedexamine theories of nationalism and consider issues of ethnicintegration and conflict in the USA, Middle East, Northern Ireland,Scotland, Quebec and Catalonia among other countries and regions.The concept of ethnicity, however, is discussed not only inrelation to group rights in existing nation-states: many of theselections deal with the role of ethnicity in groups which are notnationalist at all but for which ethnicity is an important factorin the process of migration, extending the focus to transnationalcommunities in a globalized world.Contributors include Benedict Anderson, Etienne Balibar, JamesClifford, Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Keating, Will Kymlicka, TariqModood, John Rex, Anthony D. Smith, Michel Wieviorka, and FrankeWilmer.

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