The debate on immigration and the crisis of national identity
- 1 April 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in West European Politics
- Vol. 17 (2) , 127-139
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01402389408425018
Abstract
The legacy of mass labour migration to Europe in the 1960s is a considerable permanent ‘foreign’ population. Now recession and industrial restructuring have cast doubt on that population's economic, social and political legitimacy; simultaneously, the nation state is under pressure from both above and below. Despite historically very different approaches to the role of immigration in Britain, France and Germany, there has emerged a common problem of national identity. Across Europe there remains strong popular attachment to the national cultural identities, and it is this inertia which denies the logic of adaptation and change.Keywords
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