Includes bibliographical references.

Demography, migration, conflict, and the state : the contentious politics of connecting people to places / Isabelle Côté and Matthew I. Mitchell -- "Sons of the soil" : conflicts and autochthony : bridging the literatures / Ragnhild Nordås -- This land is whose land? : "sons of the soil" conflicts in Darfur / Johan Brosché and Ralph Sundberg -- Ethnic census-taking, instability, and armed conflict / Håvard Strand, Henrik Urdal, and Isabelle Côté -- Internal migration, political liberalization, and violent conflict in authoritarian China / Isabelle Côté -- The concept of "rootedness" in the struggle for political power in the former Soviet Union in the 1990s / Pål Kolstø -- How homelands change : lessons from the experience of two Israeli nationalist movements / Nadav G. Shelef -- Sons of the Soviet soil and the collapse of the USSR / Monica Duffy Toft -- Migration and conflict in OECD countries / Michael S. Teitelbaum -- Ethnic nationalism or relaxed assimilation? : the response of dominant ethnic groups to immigration in the Anglo-Saxon world / Eric Kaufmann -- Concluding remarks on the politics of people changing places / Monica Duffy Tof.