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GERMANS OR FOREIGNERS?
ATTITUDES TOWARD ETHNIC MINORITIES IN POST-REUNIFICATION GERMANY |
| By: |
Peter Schmidt, Richard Alba (Editor), Peter Schmidt (Editor) |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£69.60 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230608825 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230608825 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
3 January, 2004 |
| Series: |
Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series |
| Description: |
Is Germany still the "ethnic nation" par excellence? This book, drawing on some of the most extensive attitudinal data about immigrant and ethnic minorities ever collected there, reveals a far more complicated picture, which simultaneously confounds and confirms this long-standing characterization. |
| Synopsis: |
This book examines contemporary attitudes towards ethnic minorities in Germany. These minorities include some of immigrant origin, such as Italians, Turks, and asylum seekers, and the principal non-immigrant minority, Jews. While the findings demonstrate that intense prejudice against minorities is not widespread among Germans, many of whom in fact can be considered immigrant- and minority-friendly, a crystallization of attitudes is also evident: that is, attitudes towards immigrants are strongly correlated with anti-Semitism and with other worldview dimensions, such as positioning in the left-right political spectrum. In this sense, the fundamental question of whether immigrants and other minorities should be regarded as fellow citizens or ethnic outsiders remains relevant in the German context. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |