The Political Representation of Ethnic Minorities in the UK in Comparative Perspective
An Economic and Social Research Council Seminar Series
The election of Barack Obama as President represents a landmark in the history of racial politics in the U.S. The US has not only chosen a leader who embodies the union of black and white America, it has elected a Presidentwho reflects the ties between established Americans and new immigrants. The victory of Obama has triggered wider debate in Europe and the UK particularly, as to whether someone from an ethnic minoritycould achieve similar sucess in national politics. The series will explorethe prospectsfor ethnic minority represntation in Britain and the barriers to achieving it.
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The Role of Institutional and Policy Contexts in Ethnic Political Representation: are Multicultural Models the Solution?
21st January 2011, 10am - 4.30pm
Hanson Room, Humanities Bridgeford Street, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, Humanities Bridgeford Street building is 35 on the campus map.
This seminar session will assess, in a comparative perspective, the relative merits of varying citizenship regimes and policy approaches to ethnic and migrant minorities’ incorporation for the promotion of their political representation. Thus, the seminar will focus, primarily, on the policy and wider institutional environment (i.e. parliament, local government, the media) and how they shape the opportunities for ethnic minorities to integrate into mainstream politics. In doing so, we will evaluate the claims that multicultural models of citizenship and incorporation are in a privileged position to foster the political inclusion of migrant and ethnic minorities.
Political opportunities for minority representation, national and local.
Laure Michon, University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands): “The role of national and local contexts on the political careers and the discourses of ethnic minority representatives in Amsterdam and Paris (1990-2008)” .
Dr. Amparo González (CSIC, Spain): “Does the citizenship regime matter? The electoral participation of immigrants and their children in local and national elections in Europe”
Political opportunity structures and the role of parties in the descriptive and substantive representation of ethnic minorities in Britain.
Dr. Maria Sobolewska, University of Manchester (UK): “Party strategies, political opportunity structure and the descriptive and substantive representation of ethnic minorities in Britain”
Prof. Thomas Saalfeld, University of Bamberg (Germany): “Parliamentary Questions as Instruments of Substantive Representation: An Analysis of the 2005-2010 Parliament”
Disentangling cross-context variation in minority representation in comparative perspective
Constanza Sanhueza (Univ. Mannheim): “Immigrants’ Representation in Britain, France and Germany: the Role of Parties and Immigrant MPs”
Prof. Karen Bird, McMaster University (Canada): “Why so Few Women and Minorities? Assessing Inclusiveness of Municipal Politics in Ontario’s Diverse Cities”
More information can be found on the agenda
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Organised by Institute for Social Change (ISC) and Democracy, Citizens and Elections Research Network (DCERN)