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Ethno‐traditional nationalism and the challenge of immigration

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ID6306403
AuthorsEric Kaufmann (0000-0002-4812-4542, Department of Politics Birkbeck, University of London London UK, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume25
Issue2
Pages435-448
Publication date2019-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNations and Nationalism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1345-5078 • E-ISSN: 1469-8129
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/nana.12516
OpenAlexW2934147061
LanguageEN
Citations received20
References cited14

The rise of the populist right in the West is emerging as the most discussed manifestation of nationalism in the world today. In this paper, I argue that this ‘new nationalism’ is largely driven by immigration, which affects ethnic majorities within nation‐states. This in turn alters the ethnic character of the nation, challenging what I term the ethno‐traditions of nationhood. Our inherited concepts of ethnic and civic nationalism were developed in an earlier period when immigration was limited and territorial revisionism animated nationalist movements. Only on the furthest reaches of the extreme right is the worldview one of ethnic nationalism. In our demographically churning yet territorially static western world, we need a new term to describe the cultural nationalism of the anti‐immigration right. I characterise this as ethno‐traditional nationalism, a variety of nationalism which seeks to protect the traditional preponderance of ethnic majorities through slower immigration and assimilation but which does not seek to close the door entirely to migration or exclude minorities from national membership

Ethnic group · Ethnic nationalism · Immigration · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Turkey's Politics and Society

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