Social Statistics And Ethnic Diversity: Cross-national Perspectives In Classifications And Identity Politics: 2015

ISBN: 9783319200941 出版年：2015 页码：241 Simon, Patrick Piche, Victor Gagnon, Amelie A Springer

This book examines the question of collecting and disseminating data on ethnicity and race in order to describe characteristics of ethnic and racial groups, identify factors of social and economic integration and implement policies to redress discrimination. It offers a global perspective on the issue by looking at race and ethnicity in a wide variety of historical, country-specific contexts, including asia, latin america, europe, oceania and north america. In addition, the book also includes analysis on the indigenous populations of the americas. The book first offers comparative accounts of ethnic statistics. It compares and empirically tests two perspectives for understanding national ethnic enumeration practices in a global context based on national census questionnaires and population registration forms for over 200 countries between 1990 to 2006. Next, the book explores enumeration and identity politics with chapters that cover the debate on ethnic and racial statistics in france, ethnic and linguistic categories in quebec, brazilian ethnoracial classification and affirmative action policies and the hispanic/latino identity and the united states census.