Includes bibliographical references.

Affirmative action : a cross-natioal debate / Erna Appelt -- Can affirmative action combat racial discrimination? Moral success and political failure in the United States / Anita L. Allen -- Positive action and democracy / Frank Cunningham -- In defence of affirmative action : North American discourses for the European context? / Melissa S. Williams -- Affirmative action in the US : the legal dimension / Luisa Antoniolli Deflorian -- Using historical and sociological evidence to defend anti-discrimination policies / Melinda Chateauvert -- Racial discrimination and affirmative action : Canada's experience with anti-discrimination legislation / Caterina Ventura -- Affirmative action and 'race' relations : affirmative action as a model for Europe / Nathan Glazer -- Positive action in the United Kingdom / Paul Taylor -- Positive action : the Dutch experience / Lilian Gon�calves-Ho Kang You and Louise Mulder -- Positive action in Sweden : from central solutions to local responsibility for combating ethnic discrimination / Maritta Soininen and Mark Graham -- The integration of immigrants and refugees in European societies / John Rex -- 'We demand that the foreigners adapt to our life-style' : political discourse in immigration laws in Austria and the United Kingdom / Ruth Wodak and Maria Sedlak -- Equality as a right : lessons to be learned from EC sex equality law for a multi-dimensional EC anti-discrimination law / Dagmar Schiek -- Combating employment discrimination in Europe : national variation and the dawn of 'good practice' / John Wrench -- Relevant legal instruments -- Relevant cases.

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