Immigrants and Nationalists Ethnic Conflict and Accommodation in Catalonia, the Basque Country, Latvia, and Estonia
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Gershon Shafir - Author
Price: $53.50 Hardcover - 279 pages
Release Date: October 1995
ISBN10: 0-7914-2673-4 ISBN13: 978-0-7914-2673-9
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Release Date: October 1995
ISBN10: 0-7914-2674-2 ISBN13: 978-0-7914-2674-6
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Summary
In this empirical and theoretical study of nationalism, ethnicity, and immigration, the author compares the reception of large numbers of immigrants in Catalonia, the Basque country, Latvia, and Estonia--developed regions that possess distinct cultures and nationalist movements.
"Shafir has produced a sensitive, analytically astute comparative historical study of ethnic nationalism in two Spanish provinces and the Baltic regions of the former Soviet Union. I think this is a superb study." -- Michael Kimmel, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Recent years have witnessed a swell of intense opposition to immigration in the developed world. In this empirical and theoretical study of nationalism, ethnicity, immigration, and internationalism, Gershon Shafir examines and compares the reception of large numbers of immigrants to four regions at opposite ends of Europe that are relatively overdeveloped but that at the same time possess distinct cultures and nationalist movements of their own: Catalonia and the Basque Provinces in Spain and the Republics of Latvia and Estonia on the Baltic.
What makes the comparison of these regions illuminating is the divergence, and reversals, in the policies and attitudes adopted by their nationalist movements during the past century. This study shows that immigrants' attitudes toward integration into their host societies cannot explain the divergence in the nationalists' positions toward them. The imbalance between the immigrants' readiness to integrate into their new societies and the measure of the nationalist opposition indicates that the causes of anti-immigrant hostility are usually found among the hosts. Shafir argues that hostility toward immigrants in developed regions is rooted not in the threat of "denationalization" or economic competition but in the danger they pose to the privileges of traditional and modern political elites, who transform regional nationalist sentiments into anti-immigration movements.
Gershon Shafir is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914.
Table of Contents
Maps
Tables
Acronyms
Preface
1. Introduction
Immigrants and Hosts
Hegemonic and Corporate Nationalism
The Contexts and Limits of Hegemonic Nationalism
Immigration and Nationalism: Summary of Propositions
2. Similarities Between the Regions
Distinct Cultures
Level of Development
Internal Migration
3. Hegemonic Nationalism in Catalonia
Hegemony and Autonomy
Immigrant Integration and Language Normalization
4. From Racism to "Primordial Socialism" in the Basque Country
Nationalism Under Combined Development
The Transformations and Contradictions of Contemporary Basque Nationalism and Immigration
5. Baltic Awakening and the Lure of Exclusivity
Unintended Independence
National Flourishing and Convergence
The Soviet Nationalities Policy
Economic Bifurcation
The Popular Fronts and the Politics of Demography
The Movement Toward Independence
Language Laws: Cultural Exclusion and Assimilation
Citizenship Laws: Political Exclusion and Integration
