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

Gerard Delanty

Sociological Research Online, 1996, vol. 1, issue 3, 56-63

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Nationalism; National Identity; Multiculturalism; Welfare State; Citizenship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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