Title:
Immigrant nations
Author:
Scheffer, Paul, 1954-
ISBN:
9780745649610
9780745649627
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Edition:
English ed.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, c2011.
Physical Description:
ix, 390 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Tolerance Under Strain -- The Conservatism of Migrants -- The In-Between Generation -- Native Unease -- Integration Requires Self-Examination -- So What's New? -- The Proximity of Strangers -- Segregation and Inequality -- Ghetto Culture -- Black and White Schools -- Dispersing Without Mixing -- Back to the Garden City -- The Globe Is Fragile -- All the Colours plus Grey -- Classic Countries of Immigration -- Migration and Development -- A Morality of Mobility -- The Citizens' Revolt -- As Others See Us -- Migration and Nation-Building -- Tolerance is not Laisser-Faire -- Organizing Islam -- Postcolonial Lessons -- Identity and Openness -- From Emigration to Immigration -- Early Opposition -- Republican Answers -- Foreigners After Genocide -- Taking Leave of Empire -- At the External Borders -- The Colonial Trap -- 'Enlightened' Racism -- The Value of Cultures -- Beyond Multiculturalism -- Prejudice Weighed -- World Citizens in the Making --
Contents note continued: The Colonists' Creed -- In the Melting Pot -- Opposition to Immigrants -- The Golden Door Shuts -- The Lingering Shadow of Slavery -- Affirmative Action -- Islam and Imperialism -- In a Secular Environment -- Conservatism and Radicalization -- Reformist Voices -- Believers in an Open Society -- A World Without an Emergency Exit -- Rituals of Citizenship -- Everything of Value Must Defend Itself -- A Triptych of Integration -- Dilemmas of Equal Treatment -- Tomorrow's Immigrants -- Accepting What We Have Become.
Abstract:
This book is a major reassessment of how immigration is changing our world. The policies of multiculturalism that were implemented in the wake of post-war immigration have, especially since 9/11, come under intense scrutiny, and the continuing flow of populations has helped to ensure that immigration remains the focus of intense social and political debate. --
Based on his deep knowledge of the European and American experience, Scheffer shows how immigration entails the loss of familiar worlds, both for immigrants and for host societies. The conflict that accompanies all major migratory movements is not the result of a failure of integration, but is part of a search for new ways of living together. It prompts an intensive process of self-examination on all sides. --
Immigration has such a profound impact because it goes to the heart of institutions like the welfare state and liberties like the freedom of expression; liberal democracies developing into immigrant nations go through an existential change. To cope with these challenges, Scheffer argues, we should move beyond multiculturalism and take a fresh look at the meaning of citizenship in a globalizing world. --
This principled and path-breaking book will establish itself as a classic work on immigration and will be an indispensable text for anyone interested in one of the most important social and political issues of our time. --Book Jacket.
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