Multicultural Challenges and Sustainable Democracy in Europe and East Asia

1. Introduction
Nam-Kook Kim

Part I. Socio-cultural Cleavage and Challenges to Democracy in East Asia

2. Multicultural Dreaming: Democracy and Multiculturalism in the ‘Chinese Dream’
James Farrer

3. The Migrant Workers’ Movement in the Democratic Consolidation of Korea
Nam-Kook Kim

4. Property Law Policy for the Indigenous Ainu People and the Unresolved Issue of Reparations in Japan
Kunihiko Yoshida

5. Multiculturalism and Malaysia’s (Semi-) Democracy: Movements for Electoral Reform in an Evolving Ethno-Political Landscape
Julian C. H. Lee

6. Socio-cultural Cleavages and Red Shirt-Yellow Shirt Conflicts in Thailand’s Politics: A Critical Multiculturalism View
Pitch Pongsawat

7. Local Citizenship and Policy Agenda for ‘Foreign Residents’ in East Asia
Jung-Mee Hwang

Part II. Discontent over Multiculturalism and Alternative Routes in Europe

8. Multiculturalism and the Extreme Right Challenge in Contemporary Britain
Nigel Copsey

9. Nondiscrimination, Diversity and Islam: Challenges for Multiculturalism in France
Alexandra Poli

10. Acculturation of Turkish Muslims as a Challenge to Social Integration in Germany
Haci Halil Uslucan

11. Acts of Citizenship against Neoliberalism: The New Cycle of Migrant Struggles in Italy
Federico Oliveri

12. Multiculturalism and Dimensions of Identification in Eastern Europe: A Failed Policy or Inescapable Reality?
Maria Stoicheva

13. A Shared European Citizenship in a Multinational and Multicultural Environment
Frank Delmartino

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Asian Culture, Social Policy, Ethnicity Studies, Democracy, Political Science, Migration