자료유형 | 단행본 |
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서명/저자사항 | Majority minority/ Justin Gest. |
개인저자 | Gest, Justin. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource (425 pages). |
기타형태 저록 | Print version: Gest, Justin Majority Minority Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO,c2022 9780197641798 |
ISBN | 0197641806 9780197641828 0197641822 9780197641804 |
일반주기 |
Description based upon print version of record.
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서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
내용주기 | Part I: Demographic Change and the Nation-State -- 1. Majority Minority -- 2. Escape Velocity -- 3. Pathways of Majority-Minority Societies -- Part II: Island Nations -- 4. "An Unnatural Country" -- 5. None for All -- 6. Masked Conflict -- 7. Where We Belong -- 8. Internal Affairs -- 9. Culture Change -- Part III: Redefining the People -- 10. From Backlash to Coexistence -- 11. Nation-Building -- 12. Borderline White -- 13. Reimagined Communities. |
요약 | How do societies respond to great demographic change? This question lingers over the contemporary politics of the United States and other countries where persistent immigration has altered populations and may soon produce a majority minority milestone, where the original ethnic or religious majority loses its numerical advantage to one or more foreign-origin minority groups. Until now, most of our knowledge about large-scale responses to demographic change has been based on studies of individual people's reactions, which tend to be instinctively defensive and intolerant. We know little about why and how these habits are sometimes tempered to promote more successful coexistence. To anticipate and inform future responses to demographic change, Majority Minority looks to the past. The book entails historical analysis and interview-based fieldwork inside six of the world's few societies that have already experienced a majority minority transition to understand what factors produce different social outcomes. This research concludes that, rather than yield to people's prejudices, states hold great power to shape public responses and perceptions of demographic change through political institutions and leaders' rhetoric. Then, in subsequent survey research, the book identifies novel ways that leaders can leverage nationalist sentiment to reduce the appeal of nativism by framing immigration and demographic change in terms of the national interest. Grounded in rich narratives and novel statistical data, Majority Minority reveals the way this contentious milestone and its accompanying identity politics are ultimately subject to unifying or divisive governance. |
일반주제명 | Cultural pluralism --Political aspects. Democracy --Social aspects. Minorities --Political activity. Diversite? culturelle --Aspect politique. Minorite?s --Activite? politique. Democracy --Social aspects. Minorities --Political activity. |
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