Nation and Migration: How Citizens in Europe Are Coping with Xenophobia

Nation and Migration provides a way to understand recent migration events in Europe that have attracted the world's attention. The emergence of the nations in the West promised homogenization, but instead the imagined national communities have everywhere become places of heterogeneity, and modern nation states have been haunted by the specter of minorities. This study analyses experiences relating to migration in 23 European countries. It is based on data from the International Social Survey Programme, a global cross-national collaborative exercise, with surveys made in 1995, 2003, and 2013. In the authors' view, a critical test for Europe will be its ability to find adequate responses to the challenges of globalization. The book provides a detailed overview of how citizens in Europe are coping with a xenophobia fueled by their own sense of insecurity. The authors reconstruct the competing sociological reactions to migration in the forms of integration, assimilation and segregation. Hungary receives special attention: the data show that people living there are far less closed and xenophobic than they might seem through the prism of a media-instigated moral panic.

Table of Contents:
List of Tables List of Figures Introduction Research Questions Chapter 1. The Rise of Nations: Modernity and Nations Coming into Existence The Three Historical Developmental Regions of Europe Theorizing the Nation The Fulfillment and Failure of Social Entropy Ethnonational Minorities in the Modern Nation State Ethnopolitics and Globalization Chapter 2. National Identity in Europe: The Knowledge Base of National Identity The Sociological Model of the Knowledge Base of National Identity About the Research Spontaneous National Identity, Membership in the National Group, and Pride in One’s Nation Nationalism: Types of National Identification The Explanatory Models of National Identity Types of National Identity European versus National Identity Conclusions Chapter 3. Attitudes toward Immigrants in Europe: The European Crisis and Xenophobia Theoretical Considerations The Empirical Testing of the Relationship Between Xenophobia and Prejudice (GFE-Syndrome) The Empirical Testing of the Relationship Between Xenophobia and National Identification The Extreme Manifestations of Hostility Toward Minority Groups in Europe Islamophobia and Fear of Fundamentalist Islam Terrorism in Europe Islamophobia and Xenophobia Conclusions Chapter 4. Migration, New Minorities, and Social Integration of Migrant Groups Migration in the Past and at Present Moral Cosmopolitism or National Self-Centeredness? Types of Migration Global Trends of Migration Theories of Migration The Social Integration of Migrant Groups Placing the Social Integration of Hungary’s Migrants in a European Comparative Perspective The MIPEX Research The LOCALMULTIDEM Research The ICS Research The Paradoxes of Free Migration Summary Epilogue Bibliography Subject index 

About the Author :
Gyoergy Csepeli is professor emeritus of social psychology, head of the Interdisciplinary Social Research Doctoral Program at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest.

Review :
"Nation and Migration is a pioneering book. Using migration as the central focus, Csepeli and Örkény made their earlier research on the topic even more relevant to our contemporary problems. They use an exceptionally rich database and manage to offer an analysis which is exemplary by the standards of the international literature on the question of nationalism, ethnicity, xenophobia and migration. The book is inspired by the work of Jenő Szűcs on the 'three regions of Europe, ' but they move in a creative was beyond Szűcs, by distinguishing six rather than just three regions of Europe. They see the 'West' as divided between the Center, the South, the North and Great Britain. As one could anticipate, the North (Sweden) was the most inclusive for 'others, ' and Great Britain was more exclusive, much like Eastern Europe and South Eastern Europe." --Ivan Szelenyi