Open AccessBook Review. Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity: Cross-National Perspectives in Classifications and Identity Politics
Author(s) -
Mister Gidion Maru
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
humaniora
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2302-9269
pISSN - 0852-0801
DOI - 10.22146/jh.v29i2.26056
Subject(s) - ethnic group , interpretation (philosophy) , politics , diversity (politics) , sociology , field (mathematics) , population , identity (music) , race (biology) , social statistics , gender studies , social science , political science , anthropology , law , demography , linguistics , mathematics , philosophy , physics , acoustics , pure mathematics
Being published as one of the book series concentrating upon the issues related to the different aspects of international migration, this edited book is published in 2015 entitled Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity:Cross-National Perspectives in Classifications and Identity Politics. This book, edited by Patrick Simon, Victor Piche and Amelia A Gagnon, presents empirical and theoretical researches on ethnic and racial classifications in official statistics which are viewed as the reflection of the representations of population and an interpretation of social dynamics through different lenses. As results of the works of the specialists of the field, this book responds toward the resurgence of the ethnic questions in the area of statistics as portrayed in effort of the increasing number of the countries in the world that regularly launchdata concerning with ethnicity or race of their population.