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Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: The Task Ahead-Rediscovering the Liberal Tradition -- 1. The Decline of Liberalism in the Eighties -- 2. A History of Attacks on Liberalism: Patterns of Hysteria and Reaction -- 3. The Liberal Political Philosophy -- 4. The Liberal Tradition in America -- 5. Liberalism and Affirmative Government -- 6. Lessons from History: A Comparison of Liberalism and Conservatism -- 7. The Recognition and Role of Values in the Liberal Tradition -- 8. Liberalism and Community -- 9. A Liberal Approach to Four Contemporary Issues -- 10. The Crisis of Liberalism and the Challenges for the Future -- Conclusion: The Importance of Ideology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book examines identities, violence and conflict in the context of internal migration in India. Combining a district-level analysis with recruitment processes, employment networks and livelihood strategies, it provides concrete policy suggestions to improve the living and working conditions of migrant workers.

1. Facets of Indian mobility : an update / S. Irudaya Rajan and U.S. Mishra -- 2. Internal migration in India : are the underclass more mobile? / R.B. Bhagat -- 3. Rural-to-urban migration in India : a district-level analysis / Arup Mitra and Mayumi Murayama -- 4. Short-duration migration in India / Vijay Korra -- 5. Magnitude of migration from the northeastern region of India / Rikil Chyrmang -- 6. Politics of conflict and migration / S. Irudaya Rajan, Vijay Korra and Rikil Chyrmang -- 7. Can the licensing-inspection mechanism deliver justice to interstate migrant workmen? / N.R. Madhava Menon -- 8. In search of livelihoods : migration and mobility from Karnataka to Goa / Ajay Bailey -- 9. Reasons for rural-urban migration : recent evidences from Bangalore / Kala Seetharam Sridhar and A. Venugopala Reddy -- 10. Job recruitment networks and migration to cities in India / Vegard Iversen. [and others] -- 11. Caste, ethnicity and migration : linking recruitment and labour process / Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma -- 12. Migration and female employment in India : macro-evidence from NSSO data / G. Remya Prabha -- 13. Multiple identities and migratory dynamics of nurses / Sreelekha Nair -- 14. Closely woven : domestic work and internal migration of women in India / Neetha N. -- 15. On examining migration-poverty nexus in urban India / William Joe, Priyajit Samaiyar and U.S. Mishra -- 16. Outside and inside the nation : migrant narratives and the making of a productive citizen in Kerala / V.J. Varghese -- 17. Impact of emigration and remittances on Goan economy / S. Irudaya Rajan and K.C. Zachariah -- 18. Emigration and remittances in Kerala in the context of surge in oil prices / K.C. Zachariah and S. Irudaya Rajan -- 19. High-skilled migration from India : an analysis of its economic implications / Sunil Mani.

Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities" constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our individuality? In this beautifully written work, renowned philosopher and African Studies scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah draws on thinkers through the ages and across the globe to explore such questions. The Et

The principal argument in Gibraltar and Empire is that Gibraltarians constitute a separate and distinctive people, notwithstanding the political stance taken by the government of Spain. Various factors - environmental, ethnic, economic, political, religious, linguistic, educational and informal - are adduced to explain the emergence of a sense of community on the Rock and an attachment to the United Kingdom. A secondary argument is that the British empire has left its mark in Gibraltar in various forms - such as militarily - and for a number of reasons. Gilbraltar and Em.

In November of 2002, the Justice and Development Party swept to victory in the Turkish parliamentary elections. Because of the party's Islamic roots, its electoral triumph has sparked a host of questions both in Turkey and in the West: Does the party harbor a secret Islamist agenda? Will the new government seek to overturn nearly a century of secularization stemming from Kemal Ataturk's early-twentieth-century reforms? Most fundamentally, is Islam compatible with democracy? In this penetrating work, M. Hakan Yavuz seeks to answer these questions, and to provide a comprehensive analysis of Isla.