Racial and Ethnic Categories in Censuses of the 2010s

Guérin-Pace, France; Filippova, Elena

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Racial and Ethnic Categories in Censuses of the 2010s

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France Guérin-Pace Send message Elena Filippova

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Censuses are considered to be the most important sources providing statistical data on the world population. They are taken to provide answers to two crucial questions: How many of us are there? and What are we like? The article discusses the ways in which censuses of the 2010s contributed to the “portrayal of nations” by collecting data on the racial or ethnic origins/belonging of people. It subjects to critical scrutiny various census categoriesestablished and applied in different countries and discusses the profound contradiction between the need for exact and reliable statistical fi gures, and the increasingly subjective notion of ethnicity the stems from the preference given to opinions expressed by survey respondents. The authors point to the performative effect that ethnic and racial categories exert as they contribute to the preservation of old or delimitation of new ethnic or racial boundaries within nation states.

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population census, ethnic and racial categories, ethnic classification standards

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GOST	Filippova E., Guérin-Pace F. Racial and Ethnic Categories in Censuses of the 2010s // Ethno review. – 2015. – Issue 1 C. 5-25 . DOI: 10.31857/S50000349-6-1
MLA	Filippova, Elena, Guérin-Pace, France "Racial and Ethnic Categories in Censuses of the 2010s." Ethno review. 1 (2015).:5-25. DOI: 10.31857/S50000349-6-1
APA	Filippova E., Guérin-Pace F. (2015). Racial and Ethnic Categories in Censuses of the 2010s. Ethno review. no. 1, pp.5-25 DOI: 10.31857/S50000349-6-1

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