Minority Rights for Immigrants? Multiculturalism versus Antidiscrimination

Joppke, Christian (2010). Minority Rights for Immigrants? Multiculturalism versus Antidiscrimination. Israel law review, 43(1), pp. 49-66. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 10.1017/S0021223700000042

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Contemporary immigration has reinforced calls for minority rights in liberal states, which accrue to immigrants (but also to citizens) qua member of an ethnic minorify group. It is often overlooked that such minority rights may be of two kinds: multicultural rights that protect cultural differences or antidiscrimination rights that attack discrimination on these grounds. I argue that the importance of multicultural rights has been greatly exaggerated, and that much of the work attributed to them has in fact been accomplished by group-indifferent individual rights. By contrast, antidiscrimination rights are growing stronger; even in Europe. However, to the degree that it tackles indirect discrimination, antidiscrimination cannot but be factually group-making, even in states that reject multiculturalism.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Institute of Sociology

UniBE Contributor:

Joppke, Christian Georg

ISSN:

0021-2237

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Language:

English

Submitter:

Factscience Import

Date Deposited:

04 Oct 2013 14:15

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:03

Publisher DOI:

10.1017/S0021223700000042

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/3876

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/3876 (FactScience: 207970)

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