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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461517403321

Titolo

Identity, belonging and migration [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Gerard Delanty, Ruth Wodak and Paul Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-78694-531-2

1-84631-453-4

1-84631-676-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Collana

Studies in social and political thought ; ; 17

Altri autori (Persone)

DelantyGerard

WodakRuth <1950->

JonesPaul <1976->

Disciplina

304.84

Soggetti

Identity (Psychology)

Migration, Internal - Europe

Racism - Europe

Electronic books.

Europe Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Migration, Discrimination and Belonging in Europe; I. Theoretical Perspectives on Belonging; II. Institutional Forms of Discrimination; III. Cases of Belonging and Exclusion; Conclusion: Discrimination as a Modern European Legacy; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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