Social statistics and ethnic diversity : cross-national perspectives in classifications and identity politics / Patrick Simon, Victor Piché, Amélie A. Gagnon, editors.

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English
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  • Cham : Springer Open, [2015]
  • ©2015
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vi, 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

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    Notes
    "All chapters except Chaps. 5 and 7 are revised papers presented at the International Conference on Social Statistics, organized jointly by the CIQSS and INED in 2007."-- note, page 2.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references.
    Contents
    • The making of racial and ethnic categories: official statistics reconsidered / Patrick Simon, Victor Piché, and Améle A. Gagnon
    • Part I. Comparative accounts of ethnic statistics
    • Ethnic classification in global perspective: a cross-national survey of the 2000 census round / Ann Morning
    • 'Inside out': the politics of enumerating the nation by ethnicity / Tahu Kukutai and Victor Thompson
    • Part II. Enumeration and identity politics
    • The choice of ignorance: the debate on ethnic and racial statistics in France / Patrick Simon
    • Ethnic and linguistic categories in Quebec: counting to survive / Victor Piché
    • Brazilian ethnoracial classification and affirmative action policies: where are we and where do we go? / José Luis Petruccelli
    • The ethnic question: census politics in Great Britain / Debra Thompson
    • Part III. Measurement issues and competing claims
    • Counting ethnicity in Malaysia: the complexity of measuring diversity / Shyamala Magaraj, Tey Nai-Peng, Ng Chiu-Wan, Lee Kiong-Hock, and Jean Pala
    • The growth of ethnic minorities in Uruguay: ethnic renewal or measurement problems? / Wanda Cabella and Rafael Porzecanski
    • The objective approaches of ethnic origins in Belgium: methodological alternatives and statistical implications / Nicolas Perrin, Luc Dal, and Michel Poulain
    • Social inequalities an indigenous populations in Mexico: a plural approach / Olivier Barbary
    • Fuzzy definitions and demographic explosion of aboriginal populations in Canada from 1986 to 2006 / Éric Guimond, Norbert Robitaille, and Sacha Senecal.
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    • 9783319200941
    • 3319200941
    OCLC
    909327792
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