The Immigrant Threat - The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe since 1850 (Hardcover)

Starting in the 1980s, anti-immigrant discourse shifted away from the "color" of immigrants to their religion and culture. It focused in particular on newcomers from Muslim countries-people feared both as terrorists and as products of tribal societies with values opposed to those of secular Western Europe. Leo Lucassen tackles the question of whether the integration process of these recent immigrants will fundamentally differ in the long run (over multiple generations) from the experiences of similar immigrant groups in the past. For comparison, Lucassen focuses on "large and problematic groups" from Western Europe's past (the Irish in the United Kingdom, the Poles in Germany, and the Italians in France) and demonstrates a number of structural similarities in the way migrants and their descendants integrated into these nation states. Lucassen emphasizes that the geographic sources of the "threat" have changed and that contemporaries tend to overemphasize the threat of each successive wave of immigrants, in part because the successfully incorporated immigrants of the past have become invisible in national histories.

General

Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies of World Migrations
Release date:	October 2005
First published:	October 2005
Authors:	Leo Lucassen
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-0-252-03046-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > General Books > History > British & Irish history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-252-03046-X
Barcode:	9780252030468

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