Loading...

Nationhood, migration and global politics : an introduction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taras, Ray, 1946- (Author)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Reinventing nationhood
  • From nation to nationhood
  • non-Western critique of concepts
  • Eurocentric bias
  • 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
  • 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
  • imperial idea
  • Eurasianism to the rescue
  • Multinational or multicultural?
  • Nationhood in flux
  • Migration in Russia
  • Russification without nationhood
  • 5. Multicultutalising Britain
  • 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
  • national dialect
  • Manifest 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
  • 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
  • violence of colonialism
  • Identity obsession
  • Elections and nationhood
  • Zulu as historic nation
  • Xenophobia without racism
  • Not belonging
  • again
  • Of kings and presidents
  • 9. Peru
  • Indigenas, Mestizos, Criollos
  • Migration and social class
  • Indigeneity
  • Casta representations
  • March to the cities
  • Integrating into urban culture
  • Extranjeros
  • Untying the Gordian Knot.