The Immigrant Threat: The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe Since 1850

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University of Illinois Press, 2005 - 277 pagina's
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.

 

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Introduction
1
Irish Migrants in Britain 18401922
27
Poles in Germany 18701940
50
Italians in France
74
Conclusion and Preview
100
Caribbean Migrants in Great Britain
113
Foreigners Within? Turks in Germany 19602002
144
Algerians in France
171
Conclusion
197
Notes
215
Bibliography
241
Index
269
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Leo Lucassen is a professor of global labour and migration history and director of the International Institute of Social History at Leiden University. He is the coeditor of Migration and Membership Regimes in Global and Historical Perspective and The Encyclopedia of Migration and Minorities in Europe, from the Seventeenth Century to the Present.

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TitelThe Immigrant Threat: The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe Since 1850
Studies of world migrations
The Immigrant Threat: The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe Since 1850, Leo Lucassen
AuteurLeo Lucassen
Editiegeïllustreerd
UitgeverUniversity of Illinois Press, 2005
ISBN025203046X, 9780252030468
Lengte277 pagina's
  
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