1st Edition

Nation and Migration How Citizens in Europe Are Coping with Xenophobia

By György Csepeli, Antal Örkény Copyright 2021
240 Pages
by Central European University Press

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... Read more
List of Tables, List of Figures, Introduction, Chapter 1. The Rise of Nations: Modernity and Nations Coming into Existence, Chapter 2. National Identity in Europe: The Knowledge Base of National Identity, Chapter 3. Attitudes toward Immigrants in Europe: The European Crisis and Xenophobia, Chapter 4. Migration, New Minorities, and Social Integration of Migrant Groups, Summary, Epilogue, Bibliography, Subject index

Biography

György Csepeli is professor emeritus of social psychology, head of the Interdisciplinary Social Research Doctoral Program at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His research areas cover the social psychology of intergroup relations including national identity in a comparative perspective, anti-Semitism, anti-Gypsy feelings. At present he is senior research fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at Koszeg (iASK).

Antal Örkény is professor of sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Eötvös Lóránd University of Budapest.He is the director of the Institute for Social Relations; from 2011 he is heading the Post Graduate (PhD) Program in social sciences at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and is a visiting Professor at Central European University, Budapest. As civic engagement, he is the president of the Menedék – Hungarian Association for Migrants.