Identity, Belonging and Migration

This volume addresses the question of migration in Europe. It is concerned with the extent to which racism and anti-immigration discourse has been to some extent normalised and ‘democratised' in European and national political discourses. Mainstream political parties are espousing increasingly coercive policies and frequently attempting to legitimate such approaches via nationalist-populist slogans and coded forms of racism. Identity, Belonging and Migration shows that that liberalism is not enough to oppose the disparate and diffuse xenophobia and racism faced by many migrants today and calls for new conceptions of anti-racism within and beyond the state. The book is divided into three parts and organised around a theoretical framework for understanding migration, belonging, and exclusion, which is subsequently developed through discussions of state and structural discrimination as well as a series of thematic case studies. In drawing on a range of rich and original data, this timely volume makes an important contribution to discussions on migration in Europe.

Gerard Delanty is professor of sociology at the University of Liverpool, chief editor of the European Journal of Social Theory, and the author of numerous volumes. Ruth Wodak is professor of discourse studies at the University of Lancaster and the author of a number of titles on discourse and discrimination. Paul Jones is lecturer in sociology at the University of Liverpool and the author of the forthcoming 2008 volume The Sociology of Architecture: Constructing Identities, also by Liverpool University Press.