Getting Into Local Power: The Politics of Ethnic Minorities in British and French Cities

Romain Garbaye presents a comparison of the politics of ethnic minorities in British and French cities, with a focus on the election of city councillors in Birmingham, Lille and Roubaix between 1980 and 2001. It shows that, while the Labour–run Birmingham City Council has co–opted a significant number of councillors of African–Caribbean and Asian background, the population of North African origins in Lille has obtained little or no representation. Roubaix represents an intermediate case, with the number of ethnic minority councillors increasing through the 1990s.
The book considers styles of political mobilization of ethnic minorities in the context of urban political systems, as well as the strategies used by party leaders to manage ethnic diversity in political competition. It analyses how ethnic and cultural diversity in urban societies translates into conflictual politics.


Spis treści:
List of Maps.
Foreword by Patrick Weil.
Series Editors′ Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
1 Historical Instititionalism and the Comparison of Local Cases Strategies of Management of Ethnic Conflict and Historical Institutionalism.
2 The British Policy Framework: Liberal Citizenship Regime, Depoliticization and the Race–Relationism of British Cities.
3 The French Policy Framework: Planned Migration, Xenophobic Politics, and Durable Political Exclusion.
4 Birmingham: Inner–City Labour Politics and Pluri–Ethnic Government.
5 Lille: Machine Politics and Exclusion of Minorities in the French Municipal System.
6 Roubaix: Inclusion Through Neighbourhood Groups and an Open Municipal Game.
Conclusion.
Appendix: Interviews and Sources.
Bibliography.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Romain Garbaye is Maître de Conférences at the Université Paris IV–Sorbonne. He obtained his DPhil in Politics at the University of Oxford, and he has hel d a Jean Monnet post–doctoral fellowship at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence. He has published several journal articles and book chapters on the politics of ethnic minorities in European cities.

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Romain Garbaye presents a comparison of the politics of ethnic minorities in British and French cities, with a focus on the election of city councillors in Birmingham, Lille and Roubaix between 1980 and 2001. It shows that, while the Labour–run Birmingham City Council has co–opted a significant number of councillors of African–Caribbean and Asian background, the population of North African origins in Lille has obtained little or no representation. Roubaix represents an intermediate case, with the number of ethnic minority councillors increasing through the 1990s.
The book considers styles of political mobilization of ethnic minorities in the context of urban political systems, as well as the strategies used by party leaders to manage ethnic diversity in political competition. It analyses how ethnic and cultural diversity in urban societies translates into conflictual politics.