The Basic Elements of a Systematic Theory of Ethnic Relations

Bibliographic Data

ID2643210
AuthorsJ Rex (0000-0003-3265-5872, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume6
Issue1
Pages25-42
Publication date2001-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Research Online (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5153/sro.557
OpenAlexW1969911855
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited23

The theory of ethnic relations has developed ad hoc on an interdisciplinary basis. It has dealt with ethnicity in small communities, larger ethnic groups or 'ethnies', ethnic nations, modernising nation states, subordinate nationalisms, the establishment of empires, post- imperial situations, transnational migrant communities and the political problems facing modernising nation states in dealing both with subordinate nationalisms and with migrant ethnic minorities. This paper seeks to deal with these various elements in an interconnected and systematic way setting out the nature of communities, small-scale self contained communities, the enlargement of these communities to form ethnic nations and the relationship between these and the institutions of the modernising nation state. It also seeks however to deal with what I call 'The second project of ethnicity' which is migration and finally goes on to look at the complex problems of multi-nationality and multiculturalism in modern nation states

Ethnic group · European union · Geography · Immigration · Multiculturalism · Nationality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resizing · Sociology · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration