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Wimmer's Ethnic Boundary Making is a major contribution to constructivist thinking about how ethnicity works. However, it is time to move beyond the default focus on differentiation, and to think more critically about a number of important issues. These include the unclear ontological status of boundaries, and the importance of affect and identification with co-ethnics in the generation of ethnic solidarity.
Richard Jenkins (Tue,) studied this question.
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