Immigration dialectic

In this book, Harald Bauder explores national identities in Canada and Germany through the lens of immigration. While he describes Canada as an example of a settler society consisting predominantly of immigrants and their descendants, Germany illustrates a country with a historical tradition as an ethnic nation recently challenged by immigration. The two categories, settler society and ethnic nation, provide the two conceptual models of national identity explored. The book is well written and clearly organized in three parts. The first part presents the theoretical and methodological framework on the nation-immigration dialectic and the field of media. The second part discusses the immigration debate in a settler society, Canada, whereas the third part analyses the immigration debate in an ethnic nation, Germany. In each national context, aspects of economy, humanitarianism, and danger are discussed. The book concludes by discussing the possibility of critical intervention in the nation-immigration dialectic. Bauder’s major

Aesthetics · Context (archaeology · Dialectic · Ethnic group · Identity (music · Immigration · National identity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Gender Studies · History · Law

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