Go back to where you came from : the backlash against immigration and the fate of western democracy

Author

• Polakow-Suransky, Sasha

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

New York: Nation books, 2017

Language

English

ISBN

9781568585925

Series

Subject(s)

• EUROPE-EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION-PUBLIC OPINION
• POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
• RIGHT AND LEFT (POLITICAL SCIENCE)
• UNITED STATES-EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION-PUBLIC OPINION

Notes

. Bibliography: p. 333-339. Index: p. 340-358

Abstract

What if politicians pose a graver threat to liberal democracy than mass migration?

Brexit and Donald Trump's victory were just the beginning--and Marine Le Pen's defeat does not signal a turning of the tide. --From the Introduction
From Europe to the United States, opportunistic politicians have exploited the economic crisis, terrorist attacks, and an unprecedented influx of refugees to bring hateful and reactionary views from the margins of political discourse into the mainstream. They have won the votes of workers, women, gays, and Jews; turned openly xenophobic ideas into state policy; and pulled besieged centrist parties to the right. How did we get here?
In this deeply reported account, Sasha Polakow-Suransky provides a front-row seat to the anger, desperation, and dissent that are driving some voters into the arms of the far right and stirring others to resist. He introduces readers to refugees in the Calais "Jungle" and the angry working-class neighbors who want them out; a World War II refugee-turned-rabbi who became a leading defender of Muslim immigrants; the children of Holocaust survivors who have become apologists for the new right; and alt-right activists and the intellectuals who enable them.
Polakow-Suransky chronicles how the backlash against refugees and immigrants has reshaped our political landscape. Ultimately, he argues that the greatest threat comes not from outside, but from within--even established democracies are at risk of betraying their core values and falling apart.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

viii, 358 p.

Dimension

24 cm.

Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Introduction : the threat within --
The guests who overstayed --
When integration fails --
The nativist nanny state --
The Danish cartoon crisis and the limits of free speech --
Out of sight, out of mind : Europe's fantasy of offshoring --
Terror and backlash --
Nostalgia, fear and the Front National's resurrection --
The great replacement --
Freedom of religion --
for some --
Barbarians at the gates --
They're stealing our jobs --
The rise of white identity politics --
When the right turns left-and the left's voters go right --
Xenophobia beyond black and white --
Willkommenskultur vs. Guantánamo --
Camp of the saints at the White House.

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