Examining the ways in which majority Western cultures govern, represent and exclude those that are considered to be ethically 'other', this book asks what is the impact of globalization, governance and Western immigration controls on the construction of the majority 'self' and the minority 'other'?

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Majority Cultures and the Everday Politics of Ethnic Difference; K.Tyler PART 1: WHOSE WORLD IS THIS? GLOBALIZATION, GOVERNANCE and IMMIGRATION Mobility, Migration Control and Geopolitical Imaginations;  S.Kalm Europe in Peril; A.Hellström PART 2: WHOSE PLACE IS THIS? LOCAL LEVEL RESPONSES TO ETHNIC DIFFERENCE City Marketing in a Dual City: Discourses of Progress and Problems in Post-Industrial Malmo; D.Mukhtar-Landgren Debating the Rural and the Urban: Majority White Racialized Discourses on the Countryside and the City; K.Tyler Local Responses to Immigrants in the Midwestern United States; K. Fennelly Belonging and Entitlement: Shifting Discourses of Difference in Multi-Ethnic Neighbourhoods in the UK; K.Ray, M.Hudson & J.Phillips Marginal Majority and Disheveled Otherness: Debating Gypsyness on the Greek-Albanian Border; A . Theodosiou PART 3: WHOSE LAND IS THIS? REPRESENTATIONS OF ETHNIC CONFLICT AND VIOLENCE The Power of Stereotypes and Enemy Images: the Case of the Chechen Wars; B. Petersson European Declarations on Minorities: the Kurdish Quest for Turkey's Membership of the European Union; N. Ucarlar Local Media Representations of Islam before 9/11; M. Brown Whose House is This? The Palestinian 'Other' and the Construction of Jewish Israeli Identity; T. Litvak-Hirsch, D. Bar-On& J. Chaitin The Making and Breaking of Difference: Concluding Thoughts; B. Petersson& K. Tyler Index