Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Migration, Discrimination and Belonging in Europe; I. Theoretical Perspectives on Belonging; II. Institutional Forms of Discrimination; III. Cases of Belonging and Exclusion; Conclusion: Discrimination as a Modern European Legacy; Index
Summary
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