Discrimination in Comparative Perspective

Policies and Practices

Bibliographic Data

ID3759595
AuthorsValérie Amiraux (Université de Montréal, corresponding author), Virginie Guiraudon (National Center for Scientific Research, Lille, France)
Year2010
Volume53
Issue12
Pages1691-1714
Publication date2010-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764210368092
OpenAlexW2167037481
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited46

This introduction to a pluridisciplinary comparative analysis of European antidiscrimination policies and practices provides a critical assessment of current European empirical developments and the analytical issues that they raise. The authors' argument builds upon the tension between the improvement of the protection of rights to equal treatment and the intensification of xenophobia in the European Union. Can proequality policies developed in a hostile context make a difference? The first part of the introduction provides an analytical framework to account for the emergence and implementation of an antidiscrimination policy framework in the European Union. The second part assesses the limits of this new paradigm in particular as far as the categorization and measurement of discrimination are concerned. It focuses on the broader impact of the development of antidiscrimination policies and jurisprudence and on the way "vulnerable populations" have made use of it

Argument (complex analysis) · Categorization · Context (archaeology) · Economics · Epistemology · European union · Geography · International trade · Jurisprudence · Law and economics · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Positive economics · Racism · Sociology · Xenophobia · Computer Science · Discrimination and Equality Law · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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