Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Majority Cultures and the Everday Politics of Ethnic Difference; K.Tyler PART 1: WHOSE WORLD IS THIS? GLOBALIZATION, GOVERNANCE and IMMIGRATION Mobility, Migration Control and Geopolitical Imaginations; S.Kalm Europe in Peril; A.Hellström PART 2: WHOSE PLACE IS THIS? LOCAL LEVEL RESPONSES TO ETHNIC DIFFERENCE City Marketing in a Dual City: Discourses of Progress and Problems in Post-Industrial Malmo; D.Mukhtar-Landgren Debating the Rural and the Urban: Majority White Racialized Discourses on the Countryside and the City; K.Tyler Local Responses to Immigrants in the Midwestern United States; K. Fennelly Belonging and Entitlement: Shifting Discourses of Difference in Multi-Ethnic Neighbourhoods in the UK; K.Ray, M.Hudson & J.Phillips Marginal Majority and Disheveled Otherness: Debating Gypsyness on the Greek-Albanian Border; A . Theodosiou PART 3: WHOSE LAND IS THIS? REPRESENTATIONS OF ETHNIC CONFLICT AND VIOLENCE The Power of Stereotypes and Enemy Images: the Case of the Chechen Wars; B. Petersson European Declarations on Minorities: the Kurdish Quest for Turkey's Membership of the European Union; N. Ucarlar Local Media Representations of Islam before 9/11; M. Brown Whose House is This? The Palestinian 'Other' and the Construction of Jewish Israeli Identity; T. Litvak-Hirsch, D. Bar-On& J. Chaitin The Making and Breaking of Difference: Concluding Thoughts; B. Petersson& K. Tyler Index