Identity, Belonging and MigrationGerard Delanty, Ruth Wodak, Paul Jones 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 for new conceptions of anti-racism within and beyond the state. The book is divided into three parts and organised around a theoretical framework for understanding migration, belonging, and exclusion, which is subsequently developed through discussions of state and structural discrimination as well as a series of thematic case studies. In drawing on a range of rich and original data, this timely volume makes an important contribution to discussions on migration in Europe. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acceptance action anti-racism anti-racist approach argued argument associated become belief belonging chapter citizenship collective concept concerned considered constitution construction context countries cultural defined definition discourse discrimination discriminatory discussion diversity dominant Dutch economic equal ethnic Europe European example exclusion existence experience expressions fact feel forms France global groups human idea immigrant important individual institutional integration issue Italy knowledge labour language laws liberal linguistic London major means migrants minorities multiculturalism national identity natives nature organizations origin particular perspective policies political position practices present principle problems question race racial racism reference relation religion religious resistance result role schools secularism seen sense situation social society specific stereotypes strategies structures suggests symbolic Theory tolerance tradition understanding University Press values violence Wodak