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Blurred Boundaries - Migration, Ethnicity, Citizenship (Paperback)
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Blurred Boundaries - Migration, Ethnicity, Citizenship (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1999, this volume examines new forms of cultural
diversity which result from migration and globalization.
Historically, most liberal democracies have developed on the basis
of national cultures - either a single one, or a dominant one, or a
federation of several ones. However, political and economic
developments have upset traditional patterns and have blurred
established boundaries. Ongoing immigration from diverse origins
has inserted new ethnic minorities into formerly homogenous
populations. Democratic liberties and rights provided opportunities
for old and new marginalized minorities to resist assimilation and
to assert identities. The resulting pattern of multiculturalism is
different from earlier ones. Often cultural boundaries are neither
clearly defined nor do they simply dissolve by assimilation into a
dominant group - they have become fuzzy and a constant source of
real or imagined hostility and anxiety. A proliferation of mixed
identities goes together with stronger claims for cultural rights
and escalating hostilities between ethnic minorities and national
majorities. In many countries multiculturalism is today perceived
as a challenge rather than as an enrichment. The book focuses on
the question how institution and policies of liberal democracies
can cope with these trends. The book addresses two tasks: 1) To
compare different national contexts and types of ethnic groups
(immigrant and indigenous, linguistic and religious minorities) and
to discuss how policies of multicultural integration have to be
adapted in order to cope with such differences. 2) To evaluate the
impact of common rends of globalization which link societies and
encourage convergence between national models of multicultural
integration.
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