1st Edition

National Identity in an Age of Migration The US experience

Edited By Peter Kivisto Copyright 2017
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

This collection explores, from a variety of angles, the beliefs of citizens and noncitizens about the impact that contemporary migration to the USA is having on American culture and on national solidarity. As in other liberal democracies that have experienced mass migration during the past several decades, there is considerable fear and anxiety in the USA about what newcomers are doing to the... Read more

Introduction – National Identity in an Age of Migration: The US Experience Peter Kivisto

1. Floods, Invaders, and Parasites: Immigration Threat Narratives and Right-Wing Populism in the USA, UK and Australia Jackie Hogan and Kristin Haltinner

2. Multiculturalism as the Normative Context of Immigrant Reception: Somali Immigrant Inclusion in Lewiston, Maine Andrea Voyer

3. Disclaimed or Reclaimed? Muslim Refugee Youth and Belonging in the Age of Hyperbolisation Cawo Abdi

4. Mobilising for Immigrant Rights Online: Performing ‘American’ National Identity through Symbols of Civic-Economic Participation Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky

5. Personal and Cultural Trauma and the Ambivalent National Identities of Undocumented Young Adults in the USA Elizabeth Aranda, Elizabeth Vaquera and Isabel Sousa-Rodriguez

6. Practicing Citizenship: Bolivian Migrant Identities and Space of Belonging in Washington DC Christopher Strunk

Biography

Peter Kivisto is the Richard A. Swanson Professor of Social Thought at Augustana College, Rock Island, IL, USA, and Head of the Research Laboratory on Transnationalism and Migration Processes at St. Petersburg State University, Russia. The author or editor of over 30 books, his most recent is Solidarity, Justice, and Incorporation (with Giuseppe Sciortino, 2015).