Nation State and Immigration: The Age of Population Movements

by Professor Anita Shapira, Yedidia Z. Stern, Alexander Yakobson

For the last two centuries, the nation state has posed a formidable challenge to multinational empires. It has served as a base for modernisation, secularisation and democratisation -- and also for the formation of totalitarian regimes. Today, the nation state faces challenges from multiple directions. National minorities demand self-determination while religious forces challenge secular governments, and global migration movements undermine the cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845195698
• ISBN13: 9781845195694
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"