Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity: Cross-National Perspectives in Classifications and Identity

INTRODUCTION: Chapter 1 The Making of Racial and Ethnic Categories: Official Statistics Reconsidered: Patrick Simon, Victor Piché, and Amélie A. Gagnon.- PART I COMPARATIVE ACCOUNTS OF ETHNIC STATISTICS: Chapter 2. Ethnic Classification in Global Perspective: A Cross-national Survey of the 2000 Census Round: Ann Morning.- Chapter 3. "Inside out": The Politics of Ethnically Enumerating The Nation: Tahu Kukutai and Victor Thompson.-PART II. ENUMERATION AND IDENTITY POLITICS: Chapter 4. The Choice of Ignorance: The Debate on Ethnic and Racial Statistics in France: Patrick Simon.- Chapter 5. Ethnic and Linguistic Categories in Québec: Counting to Survive: Victor Piché.- Chapter 6. Brazilian Ethnoracial Classification and Affirmative Action Policies: Where Are We and Where Do We Go?:José Luis Petruccelli.- Chapter 7. The Ethnic Question: Census Politics in Great Britain: Debra Thompson.- PART III. MEASUREMENT ISSUES AND COMPETING CLAIMS: Chapter 8. Counting Ethnicity in Malaysia: the Complexity of Measuring Diversity:Shyamala Nagaraj, Tey Nai-Peng, Ng Chiu-Wan, Lee Kiong-Hock, Jean Pala.- Chapter 9. The Growth of Ethnic Minorities in Uruguay: Ethnic Renewal or Measurement Problems?: Wanda Cabella and Rafael Porzecanski.- Chapter 10. The Objective Approaches of Ethnic Origins in Belgium: Methodological Alternatives and Statistical Implications: Nicolas Perrin, Luc Dal and Michel Poulain.- Chapter 11. Social Inequalities and Indigenous Populations in Mexico: A Plural Approach: Olivier Barbary.- Chapter 12. Fuzzy Definitions and Demographic Explosion of Aboriginal Populations in Canada from 1986 to 2006: Éric Guimond, Norbert Robitaille, and Sacha Senécal.