The Immigrant Threat: The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe Since 1850

by Leo Lucassen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252072944
• ISBN13: 9780252072949
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years