ISBN:
0585067244
,
9780585067247
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xvi, 279 p.)
,
maps.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Immigrants and nationalists
DDC:
305.8
Keywords:
Nationalism Case studies
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Ethnicity Case studies
;
Immigrants Case studies
;
Xenophobia Case studies
;
Nationalism Case studies
;
Ethnicity Case studies
;
Immigrants Case studies
;
Xenophobia Case studies
;
Xenophobia Case studies
;
Immigrants Case studies
;
Nationalism Case studies
;
Ethnicity Case studies
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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Ethnicity
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Immigrants
;
Nationalism
;
Xenophobia
;
Case studies
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Electronic books Case studies
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Fallstudiensammlung
Abstract:
Recent years have witnessed a swell of intense opposition to immigration in the developed world. In this empirical and theoretical study of nationalism, ethnicity, immigration, and internationalism, Gershon Shafir examines and compares the reception of large numbers of immigrants to four regions at opposite ends of Europe that are relatively overdeveloped but that at the same time possess distinct cultures and nationalist movements of their own: Catalonia and the Basque Provinces in Spain and the Republics of Latvia and Estonia on the Baltic
Description / Table of Contents:
1. Introduction. Immigrants and Hosts. Hegemonic and Corporate Nationalism. The Contexts and Limits of Hegemonic Nationalism. Immigration and Nationalism: Summary of Propositions2. Similarities Between the Regions. Distinct Cultures. Level of Development. Internal Migration -- 3. Hegemonic Nationalism in Catalonia. Hegemony and Autonomy. Immigrant Integration and Language Normalization -- 4. From Racism to "Primordial Socialism" in the Basque Country. Nationalism Under Combined Development. The Transformations and Contradictions of Contemporary Basque Nationalism and Immigration -- 5. Baltic Awakening and the Lure of Exclusivity. Unintended Independence. National Flourishing and Convergence. The Popular Fronts and the Politics of Demography. 6. Conclusion.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-272) and index. - Description based on print version record
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