Nation and Migration : How Citizens in Europe Are Coping with Xenophobia /

Csepeli, György,

Nation and Migration : How Citizens in Europe Are Coping with Xenophobia / György Csepeli and Antal Örkeny. - 1 online resource (240 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

The rise of nations. Modernity and nations coming into existence -- National identity in Europe : the knowledge base of national identity -- Attitudes toward immigrants in Europe : the European crisis and xenophobia -- Migration, new minorities, and the social integration of migrant groups.

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"Nation and Migration provides a way to understand recent migration events in Europe that have attracted the world's attention. The emergence of the nations in the West promised homogenization, but instead the imagined national communities have everywhere become places of heterogeneity, and modern nation states have been haunted by the specter of minorities. This study analyses experiences relating to migration in twenty-three European countries. It is based on data from the International Social Survey Programme, a global cross-national collaborative exercise. In the authors' view, a critical test for Europe is its ability to find adequate responses to the challenges of globalization. The book provides a detailed overview of how citizens in Europe are coping with a xenophobia fueled by their own sense of insecurity. The authors reconstruct the competing social reactions to migration in the forms of integration, assimilation, and segregation. Hungary receives special attention: the data show that people living there are far less closed and xenophobic than they might seem through the prism of a media-instigated moral panic"--

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Xenophobia
Nationalism
National characteristics, European
Immigrants--Social conditions
Immigrants--Public opinion
Ethnic relations
Emigration and immigration--Social aspects
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
Europeens.
Nationalisme--Europe.
Xenophobie--Europe.
National characteristics, European.
Nationalism--Europe.
Immigrants--Social conditions.--Europe
Immigrants--Public opinion.--Europe
Xenophobia--Europe.


Europe
Europe--Émigration et immigration--Aspect social.
Europe--Relations interethniques.
Europe--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
Europe--Ethnic relations.


Electronic books.