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Beyond the Nation-State: National Identity and Citizenship in a Multicultural Society - A Response to Rex

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  • Gerard Delanty

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The crisis of national identity in Western Europe is related to the rise of a new nationalism which operates at many different levels, ranging from extreme xenophobic forms to the more moderate forms of cultural nationalism. Underlying the new nationalism in general is more a hostility against immigrants than against other nations; it is motivated less by notions of cultural superiority than by the implications multiculturalism has for the welfare state, which is being attacked by neo- liberal agendas. As a cultural discourse, the new nationalism is a product of social fragmentation. Therefore the most important challenge facing the democratic multi- cultural state in the context of European integration is to find ways of preserving the link between social citizenship and multiculturalism. Without a firm basis in social citizenship, multiculturalism will suffer continued attacks from nationalism, feeding off social insecurity.

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  • Gerard Delanty, 1996. "Beyond the Nation-State: National Identity and Citizenship in a Multicultural Society - A Response to Rex," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 1(3), pages 56-63, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:1:y:1996:i:3:p:56-63
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.23
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    1. Kohnert, Dirk, 2008. "Ausgrenzung und Entfremdung statt Integration: Afrikas Neuer Nationalismus in Zeiten der Globalisierung [Exclusion and alienation instead of inclusion: Africa's new Nationalism in times of globaliz," MPRA Paper 10529, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. M. Hjerm, 1998. "Reconstructing “Positive†Nationalism: Evidence from Norway and Sweden," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 3(2), pages 21-35, June.
    3. William Housley & Richard Fitzgerald, 2001. "Categorisation, Narrative and Devolution in Wales," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 6(2), pages 23-36, August.
    4. Kohnert, Dirk, 2008. "Entfremdung und Ausgrenzung: Afrikas neuer Nationalismus in Zeiten der Globalisierung," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 58(2), pages 197-222.
    5. Norbert Kersting, 2009. "New Nationalism and Xenophobia in Africa – A New Inclination?," Africa Spectrum, Institute of African Affairs, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, vol. 44(1), pages 7-18.

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