Nationalist Responses to the Crisis in Europe: Old and New Hatreds (Research in Migration and Ethnic Relations Series)

The economic insecurity in Europe has given rise to parties of the far right - parties which in many cases form the spearhead of larger renationalization processes, directed against positions of global integration. This book examines the dynamics of three distinct, yet inter-related forms of exclusion in contemporary Europe, namely anti-Muslim racisms, antisemitism and antiziganism. Examining discourses of national identity and drawing on new, qualitative empirical research in the UK, Hungary and Norway, Nationalist Responses to the Crisis in Europe explores the various historical events, material conditions and social contexts that shape distinct forms of xenophobia and intolerance toward national minorities, demonstrating how, in contemporary right-wing and nationalist discourses, the categories of 'Muslims', 'Jews' and 'Roma', are constructed as threatening others to the nation-state. Whilst considering the important part that politics, culture, and the economy play in shaping xenophobia, the author also pays special attention to the practical roles played of ordinary people engaging in routine activities, as they reproduce ethnic, national, and racialised forms of collective belonging in their everyday lives. An empirically grounded study of the interdependence of 'hot' and 'banal' nationalism, and the connection between nationalist politics at the institutional level and the everyday reproduction of xenophobia and intolerance, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology and politics with interests in nationalisms, exclusion, racism and contemporary xenophobia.