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Emergent Multiculturalism? Challenging the national story of Wales

Emergent Multiculturalism? Challenging the national story of Wales. The Future of Multicultural Britain Conference 14-15th June 2005 Charlotte Williams University of Wales Bangor. ‘The Break up of Britain’. ‘A common core of Britishness’? Formulations of the new multi-culturalism

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Emergent Multiculturalism? Challenging the national story of Wales

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  1. Emergent Multiculturalism?Challenging the national story of Wales The Future of Multicultural Britain Conference 14-15th June 2005 Charlotte Williams University of Wales Bangor

  2. ‘The Break up of Britain’ • ‘A common core of Britishness’? • Formulations of the new multi-culturalism • ‘Unsettling’ Britishness

  3. The Welsh as a racialisedgroup Mathew Arnold (1883) the Celtic essence… “sentiment as its main basis, with love of beauty, charm and spirituality for its excellence, ineffectualness and self will for its defect” (AA Gill 1999) ‘dark, ugly pugnacious trolls’

  4. ‘Race’ narratives in Wales Immigrants ‘the tolerance thesis’ In-migrants ‘neo-colonialism thesis’ = ‘disavowed multiculturalism’ (Hesse 2000)

  5. Denial Disassociation Disbelief Immigrants

  6. In-migrants • Protect the ‘Celtic essence’ • In-migration Yes, Colonisation No!

  7. Multiculturalism in Wales:New directions? • The devolutionary pact ….. ‘civic not ethnic identity’ • ‘Clear red water’ ideology • Multicultural ‘transruptions’

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