'Kinds of people' and equality monitoring in the UK

Policy and Politics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 55-74

  Aspinall, Peter J ^a,b   Mitton, Lavinia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b London Health Observatory   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Equality monitoring; Ethnicity; Kinds of people; Religion

Indexed keywords

ETHNIC CONFLICT; ETHNICITY; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; NATIONAL IDENTITY; RELIGION; SOCIAL CONFLICT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 39649110329     PISSN: 03055736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1332/030557308783431661     Document Type: Article

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