ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on Single European Market pose problems and challenges in a number of ways. It examines the analyses of race and ethnic relations that have developed in Britain during the past 30 years, and concepts of nation and nationalism and their relationship to ethnicity and the notion of ethnic origin. In a context of increasing racialization of policies and of popular dis-courses, there was a polarization of approaches rather than debates. The span of individual discretion within the rules of any particular organization or social situation is a case in point. The 1970s was an important decade for the development of theoretical positions in relation to migrant labour and around the articulation of race and class. The chapter explores the issue of gender as it relates to race, ethnicity, and nation, an aspect of social organization rarely mentioned in the current debates. It examines the role of religion in race and ethnic relations and the development of nationalism.