Abstract
Research Center (UKAM).As an interdisciplinary academic journal, JECS publishes philosophical, theoretical, and empirical research from all disciplines dealing with ethnicity, identity, culture and multicultural education.Concerned primarily with critical reviews of current research, JECS provides a space for debate regarding concepts and the questions they raise that have potential to influence in a formative manner ethnic and cultural studies.We believe JECS will make a solid contribution to the field of social science and stimulate needed scholarly debate.It will meet the epetations of varied audiences and endure to stimulate new and exciting research in its field.The first issue has four excellent papers and books reviews.