CRITICS-L: New Book

[vance at eburg.com]

At 12:13 AM 8/6/1998 +0200, M.HUSSAIN wrote:
>Dear Memebers of the List,
>May I take your attention to a recently published Ph.D. thesis presented at
>
>Aarhus Univ. of Denmark by a scholar with immigrant back-ground, Bülent
>DIKEN:
>STRANGERS, AMBIVALENCE and SOCIAL THEORY.
>Personally, I have not seen so far such a master piece of a scholarly
>craftsmanship
>on the topic of migration by any Danish scholar who has ever touched this
>subject.
>What strikes me most is the fact that the Danes are not talking and
>debating
>about the book when they are talking at all levels, through all the
>channels, and
>all the times about the problems "they" have with their immigrants.
>Zygmunt Bauman (Univ. of Leeds) has remarked:
>"Diken handles this excruciantingly difficult subject in a masterful way,
>bringing together a deep insight into the plight of the migrants and
>everything which contemporary theory may offer to illuminate it."
>Diken offers a profound analysis of the institutional racism of the present
>days' Danish society ( tribe?) in the light of the most celebrated social
>and sociological theories of our time - and challenges them. (publisher:
>Ashgate, Aldershot (1998).
>Best Regards, mustafa.hussain at get2net.dk

Sounds like an interesting work. But would you mind letting me know whether
you (he) refer(s) to emmigrants, or to people who live a migratory pattern
of life. Than you. -vance