British national identity and the dilemmas of multiculturalism

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-28

  Asari, Eva Maria ^a   Halikiopoulou, Daphne ^a   Mock, Steven ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; MULTICULTURALISM; NATIONAL IDENTITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 50649089169     PISSN: 13537113     EISSN: 15572986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13537110701872444     Document Type: Article

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