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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818010203321

Autore

Bauder Harald <1969->

Titolo

Immigration dialectic : imagining community, economy, and nation / / Harald Bauder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-4426-6115-1

1-4426-8719-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Disciplina

325.43

Soggetti

Identity politics - Germany

Identity politics - Canada

Nationalism - Germany

Nationalism - Canada

Electronic books.

Germany Emigration and immigration

Canada Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Immigration and identity formation. The nation-immigration dialectic -- The field of the media -- The immigration debate in Canada and Germany -- pt. II. Immigration debate in a settler society. Immigration as danger -- Humanitarian immigration -- Economic utility -- pt. III. Immigration debate in an ethnic nation. A nation of Wirtschaftswunder? -- From immigration to integration -- Refugees and asylum seekers -- Conclusion -- Epilogue : towards a critical immigration dialectic.

Sommario/riassunto

"Immigration is an integral part of national identity in settler societies such as Canada. But in countries where identity is defined more in ethnic terms, such as Germany, the presence of immigrants has only recently begun to be acknowledged. Taking these two countries as case studies, Immigration Dialectic explores national identity as imagined through media-based discourses of immigration."--Page [i].