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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809597103321

Titolo

Fear, anxiety, and national identity : immigration and belonging in North America and Western Europe / / Nancy Foner, Patrick Simon, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Russell Sage Foundation, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-61044-853-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Disciplina

304.8/4

Soggetti

Immigrants - North America

Immigrants - Europe

Cultural pluralism - North America

Cultural pluralism - Europe

National characteristics

North America Emigration and immigration

Europe Emigration and immigration

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction - Fear, Anxiety, and National Identity: Immigration and Belonging in North America and Western Europe; Part I - North America; Chapter 1 - The Contradictory Character of American Nationality: A Historical Perspective; Chapter 2 - Reimagining the Nation in a World of Migration: Legitimacy, Political Claims-Making, and Membership in Comparative Perspective

Chapter 3 - Does Becoming American Create a Better American? How Identity Attachments and Perceptions of Discrimination Affect Trust and ObligationChapter 4 - The War on Crime and the War on Immigrants: Racial and Legal Exclusion in the Twenty-First-Century United States; Part II - Western Europe; Chapter 5 - Feeling Dutch: The Culturalization and Emotionalization of Citizenship and Second-Generation Belonging in the Netherlands; Chapter 6 - Nationhood and Muslims in Britain



Chapter 7 - Constituting National Identity Through Transnationality: Categorizations of Inequalities in German Integration DebatesIndex