Exploring the Demands of Assimilation among White Ethnic Majorities in Western Europe.
Since the mid-1990s, assimilation has gradually regained momentum as both a normative and an analytical concept for understanding the ways in which migrants are incorporated into societies at large. Although scholars have investigated various dimensions of this process, they have tended to privilege...
| Published in: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 59 - 77 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jan2012
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