Immigration Dialectic : : Imagining Community, Economy, and Nation / / Harald Bauder.

Immigration is an integral part of national identity in settler societies such as Canada. But in countries where identity is defined more in ethnic terms, such as Germany, the presence of immigrants has only recently begun to be acknowledged. Taking these two countries as case studies, Immigration D...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2011
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One. Immigration and Identity Formation
  • 1. The Nation-Immigration Dialectic
  • 2. The Field of the Media
  • 3. The Immigration Debate in Canada and Germany
  • Part Two. Immigration Debate in a Settler Society
  • 4. Immigration as Danger
  • 5. Humanitarian Immigration
  • 6. Economic Utility
  • Part Three. Immigration Debate in an Ethnic Nation
  • 7. A Nation of Wirtschaftswunder?
  • 8. From Immigration to Integration
  • 9. Refugees and Asylum Seekers
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue: Towards a Critical Immigration Dialectic
  • Appendix: Research Design
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index