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Introduction

Immigrant life in the age of extremism

Interculturalism, historical memory and the politics of belonging

 | Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Multiculturalism, interculturalism and belonging
  • 3.Empire, commonwealth and the historical production of the migrant question
    • 3.1Metropole, colony and the Atlantic world
    • 3.2Citizenship, immigration control and Windrush
    • 3.3Brexit and the afterlives of empire
    • 3.4Historical method and comparison
  • 4.Extremism, mainstream politics and the politics of fear
  • 5.Introducing the five contributions
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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