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Urbana: University of Illinois Press, Date: 2005. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 277 pages. Starting in the 1980s, anti-immigrant discourse shifted away from the "color" of immigrants to their religion and culture. It focused in particular on newcomers from Muslim countries—people feared both as terrorists and as products of tribal societies with values opposed to those of secular Western Europe. Leo Lucassen tackles the question of whether the integration process of these recent immigrants will fundamentally differ in the long run (over multiple generations) from the experiences of similar immigrant groups in the past. For comparison, Lucassen focuses on "large and problematic groups" from Western Europe's past (the Irish in the United Kingdom, the Poles in Germany, and the Italians in France) and demonstrates a number of structural similarities in the way migrants and their descendants integrated into these nation states. Lucassen emphasizes that the geographic sources of the "threat" have changed and that contemporaries tend to overemphasize the threat of each successive wave of immigrants, in part because the successfully incorporated immigrants of the past have become invisible in national histories. Clean copy. Record # 380917 2005. University of Illinois Press ISBN 0252072944 9780252072949 [US]

ISBN10: 0252072944, ISBN13: 9780252072949, [publisher: University of Illinois Press 2005-10-05, Urbana, Ill. :|Chesham] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]

Univ of Illinois Pr, Date: 2005. Paperback. New. 277 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. 2005. Univ of Illinois Pr ISBN 0252072944 9780252072949 [GB]

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Urbana, Ill. : |Chesham University of Illinois Press 2005 Trade paperback New in new dust jacket.