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Europe Old and New - Transnationalism, Belonging, Xenophobia (Hardcover)
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Europe Old and New - Transnationalism, Belonging, Xenophobia (Hardcover)
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Is Europe indeed uniting or instead falling apart as a result of
anti-immigrant prejudices, a massive Islamic influx, and ancient
intra-European hatreds? This innovative and engaging book explores
this key question by examining the national and religious phobias
and prejudices, antipathies and sympathies, stereotypes and
heterotypes of Europe west and east. Considering the sources of
Europe's culture-based divide, Ray Taras argues that the idea of
two "Europes" is grounded both in reality and myth. The accession
process that brought a dozen new members into the European Union
after 2004 highlighted the persisting gulf between "old" and "new"
Europe. While many concrete borders between east and west were
removed (commercial, legal, passport regimes), many remained
(absence of a single Euro currency zone, labor market, and security
community). Virtual borders too were invented or re-imagined: the
postmaterialist, inclusionary, tolerant values supposedly found in
old Europe versus the materialist, nationalistic, xenophobic ones
of new Europe. After reviewing the two Europes' contrasting
historical legacies, Taras examines the EU institutions designed to
overcome the historical European divide. He considers the treaties,
political rhetoric, citizen attitudes, and literary narratives of
belonging and separation that both bind and fray the fabric of
Europe. Throughout, this interdisciplinary work provides a
comprehensive, hard-hitting, and unabashed review of how enlarged
Europe embraces contrasting understandings of its political home
and of who belongs and who does not.
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