This volume provides an overview of EU actions seeking to manage diversity, introduces a conceptual framework to think about diversity in the European Union, and provides a tapestry of cases that illustrate minority politics and activism, contestations over identity and difference, and the construction of new meanings of European citizenship.

ELISABETH PRÜGL is Professor of Politics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University, USA. MARKUS THIEL is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University, USA.