A comprehensive comparative study of the distinct ideas and political arguments that have shaped French and British policies towards their ethnic minorities, and the effects of these intellectual frameworks at local, national and European levels. Charting the politics and events that brought the respective institutional solutions together, the author sets out the divergent conceptualisations of citizenship, nationality, pluralism, autonomy, public order and tolerance that make up the national 'philosophies' in the two countries - republican integration in France and multicultural race relations in Britain. This new edition, published in paperback, contains a new preface bringing the volume up-to-date in the light of new legislation and progress.

ADRIAN FAVELL is Research Fellow of the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER), Utrecht. After completing a PhD at the European University Institute, Florence, he was Hoover Fellow at the Chaire Hoover d'éthnique économique et sociale, Louvain-la-Neuve, and held a Leverhulme Trust scholarship at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris.

Preface to the Second Edition Glossary Liberal Democracies and Their Ethnic Dilemmas Public Philosophies as Normative and Explanatory Theories France: The Republican Philosophy of Integration Ideas and Politics in the 1980s Britain: The Paradoxical Triumph of Multicultural Race Relations France into the1990s: Following the Integration Line jusqu'au bout Britain into the 1990s: Cracks in the Mirror Challenge to the Nation State: The European Question Bibliography Index