In this book, leading experts from a range of disciplines look at the responses to stigmatization from the perspectives of ordinary people. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Michèle Lamont is Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African and African-American Studies at Harvard University, USA. Nissim Mizrachi is a Faculty member in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Science at Tel Aviv University, Israel.