A near-existential dilemma: The European national template, the accommodation of diversity and the nationalist backlash

TY - JOUR

T1 - A near-existential dilemma

T2 - The European national template, the accommodation of diversity and the nationalist backlash

AU - Hedetoft, Ulf Riber

PY - 2019/8/8

Y1 - 2019/8/8

N2 - The reason Europe has difficulties accepting large-scale immigration and ethnic diversity should be sought in the basic structure of European nationalism and is not a phenomenon easily dealt with through good will or institutional reform. Simultaneously, populism and other forms of anti-elitism go hand in hand with increasing international interdependence; the business world and politics are moving apart; and the EU is trapped between nearly irreconcilable paradoxes. I outline a number of these dichotomies while finally looking at what needs to be done to close the widening gap between nationalism, European integration and migration-based diversity.

AB - The reason Europe has difficulties accepting large-scale immigration and ethnic diversity should be sought in the basic structure of European nationalism and is not a phenomenon easily dealt with through good will or institutional reform. Simultaneously, populism and other forms of anti-elitism go hand in hand with increasing international interdependence; the business world and politics are moving apart; and the EU is trapped between nearly irreconcilable paradoxes. I outline a number of these dichotomies while finally looking at what needs to be done to close the widening gap between nationalism, European integration and migration-based diversity.

U2 - 10.1080/14608944.2018.1514594

DO - 10.1080/14608944.2018.1514594

M3 - Tidsskriftartikel

SN - 1460-8944

JO - National Identities

JF - National Identities

ER -