Full Description
This book, written by one of the leading authorities on migration, traces the growth of global migration since 1945, showing how it has produced fundamental economic, social and cultural changes in most parts of the world.
Using techniques of comparative analysis the book shows the gap between global migration and policy. As the postwar demand for labour outstripped supply, flows of ethnic migration were encouraged throughout the developed Western countries. The rooting of new ethnicities in different soils was neither planned or managed effectively. The book shows how the economic demand for work has been supplemented by the demand from asylum seekers to recognize injustice and oppression. The book also examines the emergence of multicultural societies and the impact of this on traditional concepts of citizenship, culture and identity.
Contents
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
Thirty Years of Research on Migration and Multicultural Societies
PART TWO: WESTERN EUROPE: THE 'GUESTS' WHO STAYED
The Function of Labour Migration in Western Europe
The Social Time-Bomb
Education of an Underclass in West Germany
The Guest-Worker in Western Europe
An Obituary
PART THREE: THE GLOBALIZATION OF MIGRATION
Migration and Minorities in Europe
Perspectives for the 1990s - Eleven Hypotheses
Contract Labour Migration
Migrations in the Asia-Pacific Region
Before and After the Crisis
Globalization and Migration
Some Pressing Contradictions
PART FOUR: MULTICULTURAL SOCIETIES AS A CHALLENGE TO THE NATION-STATE
Multicultural Citizenship
The Australian Experience
Explaining Racism in the New Germany
The Racisms of Globalization
Citizenship and the Other in the Age of Migration
