Identity, Belonging and Migration

doi:10.5949/UPO9781846314537

This volume addresses the question of migration in Europe. It is concerned with the extent to which racism and anti-immigration discourse has been to some extent normalised and democratised in European and national political discourses. Mainstream political parties are espousing increasingly coercive policies and frequently attempting to legitimate such approaches via nationalist-populist slogans and coded forms of racism. Identity, Belonging and Migration shows that that liberalism is not enough to oppose the disparate and diffuse xenophobia and racism faced by many migrants today and calls for new conceptions of anti-racism within and beyond the state. The book is divided into three parts and organised around a theoretical framework for understanding migration, belonging, and exclusion, which is subsequently developed through discussions of state and structural discrimination as well as a series of thematic case studies. In drawing on a range of rich and original data, this timely volume makes an important contribution to discussions on migration in Europe.

Dealing with something as contentious and problematic as identities in Europe today makes this book a valuable and timely contribution to the literature.

Source: The Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Volume 17, Issue 3

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-vii

List of Figures
pp viii-viii

Notes on Contributors
pp ix-xii

Introduction: Migration, Discrimination and Belonging in Europe
pp 1-18

I - Theoretical Perspectives on Belonging
pp 19-20

1 - Belonging and European Identity
pp 21-37

2 - Identity, Belonging and Migration: Beyond Constructing ‘Others’
pp 38-53

3 - ‘Us’ and ‘Them’: Inclusion and Exclusion – Discrimination via Discourse
pp 54-77

4 - Dilemmas of Secularism: Europe, Religion and the Problem of Pluralism
pp 78-97

II - Institutional Forms of Discrimination
pp 98-100

5 - Racism, Anti-Racism and the Western State
pp 101-119

6 - What Space for Migrant Voices in European Anti-Racism?
pp 120-133

7 - Multiculturalization of Societies: The State and Human Rights Issues
pp 134-151

8 - Towards a Theory of Structural Discrimination: Cultural, Institutional and Interactional Mechanisms of the ‘European Dilemma’
pp 152-172

9 - On Institutional and Agentic Discrimination: Migrants and National Labour Markets
pp 173-197

10 - Non-Place Identity: Britain's Response to Migration in the Age of Supermodernity
pp 198-217

III - Cases of Belonging and Exclusion
pp 218-220

11 - Symbolic Violence
pp 221-240

12 - Voices of Migrants: Solidarity and Resistance
pp 241-260

13 - Transformations of ‘Dutchness’: From Happy Multiculturalism to the Crisis of Dutch Liberalism
pp 261-278

14 - Competent vs. Incompetent Students: Polarization and Social Closure in Madrid Schools
pp 279-300

Conclusion: Discrimination as a Modern European Legacy
pp 301-310

Index
pp 311-329

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