Citizenship, Nationality and Ethnicity: Reconciling Competing Identities

* Offers a new interpretation of one of the most significant social problems of the moment - the origins of ethnic divisions and ethnic clashes.
* Oommen discusses ethnicity in relation to both the notion of the nation and the notion of citizenship.
* Unlike many comparable works which concentrate on Europe and the US, this book offers more of a global sweep, discussing ethnic and cultural divisions in Asia and Africa.