Ali Rattansi

Ali Rattansi is Visiting Professor in Sociology at City University, London. His many books include 'Race', Culture and Difference (with J.Donald) (1992), and Racism, Modernity and Identity (with S. Westwood) (1994). He is currently writing a book entitled Rethinking Racism.

Migration fantasies: how not to debate immigration and asylum

We must talk about population movements in terms of gross inequality, unfair trade patterns, failed states, demographic change, the collapse of the Soviet bloc, and American hegemony. [Reposted from openDemocracy, May 2003]

By Ali Rattansi

/ 28 Sep 2015

From multiculturalism to interculturalism – a reply to the British political elite

Ali Rattansi’s recently-published study of the politics of multiculturalism sets out to rebut in detail the falsities and half-baked assumptions Labour’s David Blunkett, Prime Minister David Cameron, and Trevor Phillips, who heads the Equality and Human Rights Commission, as they rubbish the contr

By Ali Rattansi

/ 12 Mar 2012

New Labour, new assimilationism

Assimilationism the expectation that newcomers to a country will, over time, assimiliate the norms of that society and blend in with those already there has in Britain usually been a

By Ali Rattansi

/ 6 Oct 2004

Migration fantasies: how not to debate immigration and asylum

Western Europe appears to be in the grip of a panic. The spectre haunting us is mass immigration, again. In Britain and elsewhere, especially in the wake of 9/11,

By Ali Rattansi

/ 28 May 2003