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The Trump Phenomenon
On November 8, 2016, American voters surprised the world by electing a rank outsider with no previous political experience, businessman and celebrity Donald J. Trump, to become the 45th President of the United States after one of the most divisive and contentious campaigns in recent history. In this short book, Peter Kivisto analyses how this happened, focusing on who Trump is and the narratives about him and his candidacy that evolved during the campaign, who his supporters are and what their worldview is, and the role of the media, right-wing Christians, and the Republican Party in making Trump's victory possible.
The Trump phenomenon must be viewed as a manifestation of right-wing populism, a movement which has serious implications for democratic values and practices, and this book examines how it took hold in America to put one of the most controversial presidents ever elected into the White House.
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Beyond a border : the causes and consequences of contemporary immigration
The most up-to-date analysis of today's immigration issuesAs the authors state in Chapter 1, “the movement of people across national borders represents one of the most vivid dramas of social reality in the contemporary world.” This comparative text examines contemporary immigration across the globe, focusing on 20 major nations. Noted scholars Peter Kivisto and Thomas Faist introduce students to important topics of inquiry at the heart of the field, includingMovement: Explores the theories of migration using a historical perspective of the modern world.Settlement: Provides clarity concerning the controversial matter of immigrant incorporation and refers to the varied ways immigrants come to be a part of a new society.Control: Focuses on the politics of immigration and examines the role of states in shaping how people choose to migrate.Key FeaturesProvides comprehensive coverage of topics not covered in other texts, such as state and immigration control, focusing on policies created to control migratory flow and evolving views of citizenship; Offers a global portrait of contemporary immigration, including a demographic overview of today's cross-border movers; Offers critical assessments of the achievements of the field to date; Encourages students to rethink traditional views about the distinction between citizen and alien in this global age; Suggests paths for future research and new theoretical developmentsBeyond a Border is a part of the SAGE Pine Forge Sociology for a New Century Series. It offers professors a powerful and timely option to incorporate the topic of immigration in their courses.
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The challenge of minority integration : politics and policies in the Nordic nations
How is solidarity achieved in highly diverse societies - particularly those that have been until recently characterized by rather homogeneous populations? What are the implications of growing levels of diversity on existing social arrangements? These two fundamental questions are explored in this edited collection, which examines the challenges of minority integration in four Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. These nations represent paradigmatic examples of social democratic welfare states that place a premium on a robust package of social rights, combined with policies aimed at reducing levels of class-based inequality and promoting gender equity. All four of these nations have witnessed growing levels of diversity due to immigration and three of them have been forced to rethink their policies concerning the indigenous Sâami, as well as old minority groups. Two introductory chapters, by Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Peter Kivisto, serve as a conceptual framework for the seven case studies that follow, and which, from a variety of perspectives and with differing emphases, analyze the evolving realities in these nations today. Taken together, they offer evidence of the critical issues surrounding attempts to achieve solidarity while valorizing diversity.
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The Trump phenomenon: how the politics of cruelty won in 2016
On November 8, 2016, American voters elected Donald J. Trump to become the 45th President of the United States. Peter Kivisto analyses how this happened, focusing on who Trump is, who his supporters are, and the role of the media, right-wing Christians, and the Republican Party in making Trump's victory possible.
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The migration-development nexus : a transnational perspective
\"This book examines current policy discussions around the migration-development nexus and subjects them to rigorous conceptual and empirical criticism through a transnational lens, placing the current re-discovery of migrants as agents of development nexus into theoretical and historical perspective.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Politics of Cruelty
The authoritarian tendencies evident in the Trump campaign and administration are framed by the idea of a \"politics of cruelty,\" drawing on Judith Shlkar's idea of the \"liberalism of fear,\" current research using authoritarianism theory, and arguments concerning the impact of the political theology of white Christian nationalism.
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Re-Reading Park and Burgess’s Landmark Textbook
Reflecting on the centenary of the publication of Robert E. Park and Ernest Burgess’s Introduction to the Science of Sociology (1921), this article attempts to add a new dimension to how that legacy might be construed. It has been a widely accepted view that the book was a landmark in the early history of American sociology, its major contribution revolving around its specification about what it meant to be a science of society. This sets the stage for the claim advanced in this article, which is that it also attempts to outline a perspective on how democracy might be achieved within the parameters of the pluralistic character of modern societies. It sets out to accomplish three things. First, it argues that in the book’s lengthy introductory chapter–authored by Park and published during the same year in the American Journal of Sociology–lays out a theoretical perspective that is primarily influenced by John Dewey, Émile Durkheim, and Georg Simmel. The article proceeds to examine in broad strokes how the following thirteen chapters fit together and add up to a cogent statement not only of the sociological enterprise intended to stimulate empirical research, but as elements of the differentiated and complex character of modernity that a democratic society must confront in establishing the bases for a new form of solidarity. This leads to an analysis of the chapter on assimilation, which should be read as the place where one finds the contours of a perspective on solidarity that while parallel to Durkheim’s work, goes beyond by offering more in terms of a perspective on democracy and inclusion in racially and ethnically diverse societies.
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The Challenge of Minority Integration
How is solidarity achieved in highly diverse societies - particularly those that have been until recently characterized by rather homogeneous populations? What are the implications of growing levels of diversity on existing social arrangements? These two fundamental questions are explored in this edited collection, which examines the challenges of minority integration in four Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. These nations represent paradigmatic examples of social democratic welfare states that place a premium on a robust package of social rights, combined with policies aimed at reducing levels of class-based inequality and promoting gender equity. All four of these nations have witnessed growing levels of diversity due to immigration and three of them have been forced to rethink their policies concerning the indigenous Sámi, as well as old minority groups. Two introductory chapters, by Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Peter Kivisto, serve as a conceptual framework for the seven case studies that follow, and which, from a variety of perspectives and with differing emphases, analyze the evolving realities in these nations today. Taken together, they offer evidence of the critical issues surrounding attempts to achieve solidarity while valorizing diversity.
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