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TY - JOUR
T1 - Welcome to the margins: Diversity, tolerance, and policies of exclusion.
AU - Lewis, Gail
PY - 2005/5
Y1 - 2005/5
N2 - This article explores some of the ways in which UK Government policies inscribe tensions between tolerance of cultural difference, on the one hand, and an attempt to instil a regime of normalizing discipline, on the other. It argues that these tensions are expressed in the ambiguity of the figure of 'the immigrant woman', who simultaneously embodies the possibility of assimilation into and destabilization of the nation and the national. This is because this figure has come to occupy a significant place both in the struggles over the meaning of cultural plurality and as the subject around whom the characterization of the nation as tolerant and modern is invested.
AB - This article explores some of the ways in which UK Government policies inscribe tensions between tolerance of cultural difference, on the one hand, and an attempt to instil a regime of normalizing discipline, on the other. It argues that these tensions are expressed in the ambiguity of the figure of 'the immigrant woman', who simultaneously embodies the possibility of assimilation into and destabilization of the nation and the national. This is because this figure has come to occupy a significant place both in the struggles over the meaning of cultural plurality and as the subject around whom the characterization of the nation as tolerant and modern is invested.
KW - Assimilation
KW - tolerance
KW - diversity
KW - culture
KW - governance
KW - texts
U2 - 10.1080/0141987042000337876
DO - 10.1080/0141987042000337876
M3 - Journal article
VL - 28
SP - 536
EP - 558
JO - Ethnic and Racial Studies
JF - Ethnic and Racial Studies
SN - 0141-9870
IS - 3
ER -