Taras, Ray,  1946- <br/><br/>
Nationhood, migration and global politics :  an introduction / 
Raymond Taras. 
 - Edinburgh :  Edinburgh University Press,  (c)2018. 
 - 1 online resource (191 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of boxes, figures and tables; 1. Reinventing nationhood; From nation to nationhood; A non-Western critique of concepts; Eurocentric bias; The cornered state; Nation branding; Which immigrants?; Which refugees?; Who gets what, when, how; Typologies of the nation; Kulturnation and nationhood; Minorities into majorities; Nationhood summarised; 2. Prejudices and partialities; Confronting bias; The secular clash with religiosity; Attributing racism; Religious intolerance; Language prejudice; Comparing biases; 3. Who belongs; Migration rising. Belonging: elusive or illusionary? First Nations; Nativism and nationhood; Not belonging; Propositions; 4. 'Imperial' Russia; Federalism and ethnicity; The imperial idea; Eurasianism to the rescue; Multinational or multicultural?; Nationhood in flux; Migration in Russia; Russification without nationhood; 5. Multiculturalising Britain; A devolved unitary monarchy; Hyper-diversity and Brexit; Britishness explained; God's treasured first-born; Nationhood exemplified: Race Equality Acts; Attitudes towards minorities; British Muslims; After Brexit; 6. Immigrant America; How new a way to nationhood. A national dialectManifest destiny and exceptionalism; Elitism and exclusion; Immigrant Americans; Immigration writ large and small; Identities and divisions; Race and anxiety; Has America lost its mind?; 7. Multinational India; Majority and majority; The British Raj and Indian nationalism; Mutiny and nation; Towards partition; Famine; Hindu nationalism triumphant; Flawed nationhood; Climate refugees; BJP rising; 8. Multiracial South Africa; Troubled legacy; The violence of colonialism; Identity obsession; Elections and nationhood; Zulu as historic nation; Xenophobia without racism. Not belonging --  againOf kings and presidents; 9. Peru --  Indígenas, Mestizos, Criollos; Migration and social class; Indigeneity; Casta representations; March to the cities; Integrating into urban culture; Extranjeros; Untying the Gordian Knot; Select bibliography; Index. 
<br/><br/> Uses philosophical thinking on delayed cinema, time and ethics to provide a new approach to reading film. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781474413435 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>019060997  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nationalism.<br/>Nation-state.<br/>Emigration and immigration.<br/>Globalization.<br/>National characteristics.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JC311  / .N385 2018