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Nation and migration how citizens in Europe are coping with xenophobia /

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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, an...

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Main Author: Csepeli, György
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Örkény, Antal
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English translation of the original Hungarian publication.
Published: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Xenophobia > Europe.
Immigrants > Europe > Public opinion.
Immigrants > Europe > Social conditions.
Nationalism > Europe.
National characteristics, European.
Europe > Ethnic relations.
Europe > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Xénophobie > Europe.
Nationalisme > Europe.
Européens.
Europe > Relations interethniques.
Europe > Émigration et immigration > Aspect social.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Ethnic relations.
Immigrants > Public opinion.
Immigrants > Social conditions.
Nationalism.
Xenophobia.
Europe.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 224 pages :) illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-220) and index.
ISBN:9789633863671
9633863678