Nationhood, Migration and Global Politics An Introduction.: An Introduction. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Taras, Ray, 1946-
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of boxes, figures and tables; 1. Reinventing nationhood; From nation to nationhood; A non-Western critique of concepts; Eurocentric bias; The cornered state; Nation branding; Which immigrants?; Which refugees?; Who gets what, when, how; Typologies of the nation; Kulturnation and nationhood; Minorities into majorities; Nationhood summarised; 2. Prejudices and partialities; Confronting bias; The secular clash with religiosity; Attributing racism; Religious intolerance; Language prejudice; Comparing biases; 3. Who belongs; Migration rising Belonging: elusive or illusionary?First Nations; Nativism and nationhood; Not belonging; Propositions; 4. 'Imperial' Russia; Federalism and ethnicity; The imperial idea; Eurasianism to the rescue; Multinational or multicultural?; Nationhood in flux; Migration in Russia; Russification without nationhood; 5. Multiculturalising Britain; A devolved unitary monarchy; Hyper-diversity and Brexit; Britishness explained; God's treasured first-born; Nationhood exemplified: Race Equality Acts; Attitudes towards minorities; British Muslims; After Brexit; 6. Immigrant America; How new a way to nationhood A national dialectManifest destiny and exceptionalism; Elitism and exclusion; Immigrant Americans; Immigration writ large and small; Identities and divisions; Race and anxiety; Has America lost its mind?; 7. Multinational India; Majority and majority; The British Raj and Indian nationalism; Mutiny and nation; Towards partition; Famine; Hindu nationalism triumphant; Flawed nationhood; Climate refugees; BJP rising; 8. Multiracial South Africa; Troubled legacy; The violence of colonialism; Identity obsession; Elections and nationhood; Zulu as historic nation; Xenophobia without racism Not belonging -- againOf kings and presidents; 9. Peru -- Indígenas, Mestizos, Criollos; Migration and social class; Indigeneity; Casta representations; March to the cities; Integrating into urban culture; Extranjeros; Untying the Gordian Knot; Select bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (191 p.)
• Subjects: 320.54; Nationalism; Emigration and immigration; Globalization; National characteristics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474413435; 1474413439
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