The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe (eBook)

A History

Rita Chin (Autor)

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2017
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8490-2 (ISBN)

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Rita Chin is associate professor of history at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany and the coauthor of After the Nazi Racial State.

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A history of modern European cultural pluralism, its current crisis, and its uncertain futureIn 2010, the leaders of Germany, Britain, and France each declared that multiculturalism had failed in their countries. Over the past decade, a growing consensus in Europe has voiced similar decrees. But what do these ominous proclamations, from across the political spectrum, mean? From the influx of immigrants in the 1950s to contemporary worries about refugees and terrorism, The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe examines the historical development of multiculturalism on the Continent. Rita Chin argues that there were few efforts to institute state-sponsored policies of multiculturalism, and those that emerged were pronounced failures virtually from their inception. She shows that today's crisis of support for cultural pluralism isn't new but actually has its roots in the 1980s.Chin looks at the touchstones of European multiculturalism, from the urgent need for laborers after World War II to the public furor over the publication of The Satanic Verses and the question of French girls wearing headscarves to school. While many Muslim immigrants had lived in Europe for decades, in the 1980s they came to be defined by their religion and the public's preoccupation with gender relations. Acceptance of sexual equality became the critical gauge of Muslims' compatibility with Western values. The convergence of left and right around the defense of such personal freedoms against a putatively illiberal Islam has threatened to undermine commitment to pluralism as a core ideal. Chin contends that renouncing the principles of diversity brings social costs, particularly for the left, and she considers how Europe might construct an effective political engagement with its varied population.Challenging the mounting opposition to a diverse society, The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe presents a historical investigation into one continent's troubled relationship with cultural difference.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.8.2017
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • affair • Algeria • Algerian war • Anti-Nazi League • anti-racism • Ayaan Hirsi Ali • Banlieue • British subject • Citizenship • Civilizing Mission • Colonialism • Commonwealth of Nations • Consideration • Crime • Cultural diversity • cultural pluralism • Decolonization • de facto • Democracy • Employment • ethnic group • Extremism • far-right politics • Federal Republic • foreign worker • freedom of speech • French nationality law • Geoff Eley • Germans • Guest worker program • headscarf • Ideology • Immigration • Immigration Policy • Islam • Islamic culture • Islamism • Italians • Jean-Marie Le Pen • Jews • Kenan Malik • laborer • left-wing politics • Legislation • liberal democracy • Liberalism • Member State • Metropole • Migrant worker • minority group • Multiculturalism • national identity • Nationalism • Nationality • Naturalization • Nazi Germany • Open Door Policy • Opposition to immigration • Oppression • political spectrum • Politician • Politics • Politics of the Netherlands • Populism • Prejudice • Princeton University Press • public figure • Public sphere • Race (human categorization) • Racism • Refugee • Religion • Republicanism • right-wing politics • Rule of Law • scientific racism • Secularism • Self-determination • Sexism • social liberalism • Social Science • Society • Sociology • SOS Racisme • States of Germany • The Satanic Verses • Tories (British political party) • Unemployment • welfare • Welfare State • Western Culture • Western Europe • Western World • West Germany • West Indian • Women in Islam • World War II • Xenophobia • Yugoslavia
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8490-X / 140088490X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8490-2 / 9781400884902