Nation and Migration : How Citizens in Europe Are Coping with Xenophobia / György Csepeli, Antal Örkény.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Csepeli, György, author.

Örkény, Antal, author.

Contributor:

Knowledge Unlatched, Funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Europe.

Europe--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Europe--Ethnic relations.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 p.)

Place of Publication:

[s.l.] : Central European University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English translation of the original Hungarian publication.

Biography/History:

Csepeli György : György Csepeli is professor emeritus of social psychology, head of the Interdisciplinary Social Research Doctoral Program at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His research areas cover the social psychology of intergroup relations including national identity in a comparative perspective, anti-Semitism, anti-Gypsy feelings. At present he is senior research fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at Koszeg (iASK).Örkény Antal : Antal Örkény is professor of sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Eötvös Lóránd University of Budapest. He is the director of the Institute for Social Relations; from 2011 he is heading the Post Graduate (PhD) Program in social sciences at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and is a visiting Professor at Central European University, Budapest. As civic engagement, he is the president of the Menedék - Hungarian Association for Migrants.

Summary:

"Nation and Migration provides a way to understand recent migration events in Europe that have attracted the world's attention. The emergence of the nations in the West promised homogenization, but instead the imagined national communities have everywhere become places of heterogeneity, and modern nation states have been haunted by the specter of minorities. This study analyses experiences relating to migration in twenty-three European countries. It is based on data from the International Social Survey Programme, a global cross-national collaborative exercise. In the authors' view, a critical test for Europe is its ability to find adequate responses to the challenges of globalization. The book provides a detailed overview of how citizens in Europe are coping with a xenophobia fueled by their own sense of insecurity. The authors reconstruct the competing social reactions to migration in the forms of integration, assimilation, and segregation. Hungary receives special attention: the data show that people living there are far less closed and xenophobic than they might seem through the prism of a media-instigated moral panic"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

The rise of nations. Modernity and nations coming into existence

National identity in Europe : the knowledge base of national identity

Attitudes toward immigrants in Europe : the European crisis and xenophobia

Migration, new minorities, and the social integration of migrant groups.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-72093-5

963-386-367-8

9781003720935

OCLC:

1249171822

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.7829/9789633863664

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access