CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Usein, Orhan |
|---|---|
| Title | The Immigrant and the Nation: Left-Right Identity Politics in France and Spain |
| Summary | The problem of integration of immigrants in the nation is based on different understandings of who can be part of it. These different perceptions are based on societal divides over the nature of the nation. My core argument is that debates over immigrants reflect debates over national identities. By using qualitative content analysis of right-wing versus left-wing media coverage of events that are of particular significance to Muslim immigrants and the native population in two very different countries, France and Spain, I demonstrate that the debates over immigrants are driven by competing left- versus right-wing conceptions of national identity. In other words, each country contains competing discourses over the nation—including the left-wing civic (liberal, universalistic, inclusive) nation and the more right-wing ethnic (conservative, particularistic, exclusive) nation, which informs different approaches toward immigrants and immigration policy in each country. |
| Supervisor | Jenne Erin Kristin |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/usein_orhan.pdf |
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