We ARE a multicultural society. That is a fact. The policy of multiculturalism adopted by the Fraser Government recognised that fact and adopted programs of affirmative action designed to ensure that migrants have equality of opportunity to participate in all aspects of life in Australia. It was a policy of INTEGRATION not assimilation. It encouraged cultural diversity but not separatism. Its p...

Abstract Scholars often use language to proxy ethnic identity in studies of conflict and separatism. This conflation ethnicity is misleading: can cut across divides itself has a strong link social mobility. Language therefore influence political preferences independently ethnicity. Results from an original survey two post-Soviet regions support these claims. Statistical analyses demonstrate tha...

While sharing many similarities in origin and tactics, separatist insurgencies in the Indian states of Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir have followed remarkably different trajectories. Whereas Punjab has largely returned to normalcy and been successfully re-integrated into India’s political and economic framework, in Kashmir diminished levels of violence mask a deep-seated antipathy to Indian rule....