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Record Nr.

UNINA9910674348103321

Autore

Melegh Attila

Titolo

The Migration Turn and Eastern Europe : A Global Historical Sociological Analysis / / by Attila Melegh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031142949

9783031142932

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (453 pages)

Collana

Marx, Engels, and Marxisms, , 2524-7131

Disciplina

813.52093552

304.847

Soggetti

Political science

Europe - Politics and government

Political sociology

Political science - Philosophy

Political Theory

European Politics

Political Sociology

Political Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Trillion Dollar Bill or a Nightmare? -- 2. The Migration Turn and the Demographic Discourses in the 1980s -- 3. Historical Material Structures and Processes- 4. Discursive Changes -- 5. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Using Marxist and Polanyian frameworks, this book examines the structural and discursive transformation that can explain the polarization of migration debates and within the rise of nationalist anti-migrant discourses in Europe with a special attention to Eastern Europe and Hungary. It goes beyond the mainstream explanations of these phenomena that uses nationalist propaganda as causal factors and instead argues that the rise of anti-immigration currents cannot be understood without a dialectical and historical analysis of the material



and discursive transformations, most importantly marketization and related reification. Drawing from thinkers such as Lukács, Polanyi, and Gramsci as well as diverse empirical sources including demographic studies, historical modelling, and discourse analyses, Migration Turn and Eastern Europe is a unique and rigorous study of one of the most pressing and puzzling political and sociological questions of our time. Attila Melegh is Associate Professor at the Institute of Communication and Sociology, Corvinus University of Budapest, UK, and Senior Researcher at the Demographic Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary.