Download or read book Public Policy and Ethnicity written by Roger Openshaw and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has ethnicity become institutionalized as a political category? Drawing on international studies, including New Zealand, the book shows that this process of public policymaking creates artificial divisions that can become permanent and detrimental as well as being at odds with the social fluidity of modern societies. Preface by Jonathan Friedman.