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Immigrant nations /

By: Scheffer, Paul, 1954-.
Contributor(s): Waters, Liz.
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, c2011Description: ix, 390 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780745649610; 9780745649610:; 0745649610; 9780745649627 (pbk.); 0745649629 (pbk.).Subject(s): Emigration and immigration -- History -- 21st century | Multiculturalism | Immigrants -- History -- 21st century | Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects | Ethnic relations -- History -- 21st century | Emigration and immigration -- Government policy | Immigrants -- NetherlandsDDC classification: 304.809
Contents:
A suitcase in the hall -- The world in the city -- The great migration -- The Netherlands: a culture of avoidance -- European contrasts -- The cosmopolitan code -- The rediscovery of America -- The divided house of Islam -- Land of arrival -- Epilogue: after the multicultural drama.
Summary: This text is a major reassessment of how immigration is changing our world. Based on his deep knowledge of the European and American experiences, Scheffer shows how immigration entails the loss of familiar worlds, and how coming to terms with a new environment evolves from avoidance through conflict to accommodation.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 304.809 SCH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0075323
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-376) and indexes.

A suitcase in the hall -- The world in the city -- The great migration -- The Netherlands: a culture of avoidance -- European contrasts -- The cosmopolitan code -- The rediscovery of America -- The divided house of Islam -- Land of arrival -- Epilogue: after the multicultural drama.

This text is a major reassessment of how immigration is changing our world. Based on his deep knowledge of the European and American experiences, Scheffer shows how immigration entails the loss of familiar worlds, and how coming to terms with a new environment evolves from avoidance through conflict to accommodation.

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