Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (335 p.))
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781846314537
Series Statement:
Studies in Social & Political Thought, 17
Content:
Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Migration, Discrimination and Belonging in Europe; I. Theoretical Perspectives on Belonging; 1. Belonging and European Identity; 2. Identity, Belonging and Migration: Beyond Constructing 'Others'; 3. 'Us' and 'Them': Inclusion and Exclusion - Discrimination via Discourse; 4. Dilemmas of Secularism: Europe, Religion and the Problem of Pluralism; II. Institutional Forms of Discrimination; 5. Racism, Anti-Racism and the Western State
Content:
6. What Space for Migrant Voices in European Anti-Racism?7. Multiculturalization of Societies: The State and Human Rights Issues; 8. Towards a Theory of Structural Discrimination: Cultural, Institutional and Interactional Mechanisms of the 'European Dilemma'; 9. On Institutional and Agentic Discrimination: Migrants and National Labour Markets; 10. Non-Place Identity: Britain's Response to Migration in the Age of Supermodernity; III. Cases of Belonging and Exclusion; 11. Symbolic Violence; 12. Voices of Migrants: Solidarity and Resistance
Content:
13. Transformations of 'Dutchness': From Happy Multiculturalism to the Crisis of Dutch Liberalism14. Competent vs. Incompetent Students: Polarization and Social Closure in Madrid Schools; Conclusion: Discrimination as a Modern European Legacy; Index
Content:
This volume addresses the question of migration in Europe. It is concerned with the extent to which racism and anti-immigration discourse has been to some extent normalised and 'democratised' in European and national political discourses. Mainstream political parties are espousing increasingly coercive policies and frequently attempting to legitimate such approaches via nationalist-populist slogans and coded forms of racism. Identity, Belonging and Migration shows that that liberalism is not enough to oppose the disparate and diffuse xenophobia and racism faced by many migrants today and calls
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781846316890
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781846316890
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
Author information:
Wodak, Ruth 1950-
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