Go back to where you came from: the backlash against immigration and the fate of western democracy

✍ Scribed by Sasha Polakow-Suransky

• Book ID: 100377207
• Publisher: Hurst & Company
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 279 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Europe;United States
• ISBN: 1787380408

✦ Synopsis

Terrorist attacks across Western Europe have provoked a wave of extreme, politicised Islamophobia. American politicians have made it virtually impossible for Syrian refugees to be resettled, Germany's once-open doors are closing fast and even a progressive beacon like Denmark is now seizing the assets of refugees at its border. This climate has already helped propel Donald Trump to the White House, endangered Angela Merkel?s hopes of re-election in Germany and put Marine Le Pen within striking distance of the Élysée Palace. 0'Go Back to Where You Came From' explains how we got here and why the new right has grown so strong in countries that have historically been defenders of human rights and models of tolerance. 0By combining narrative history, on-the-ground reportage and interviews with the rising stars of the new right and the intellectuals who have enabled them, Polakow-Suransky shows how xenophobia went mainstream and the politicians embracing it rebranded themselves as defenders of western liberal values to reshape the political landscape.;Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: The Threat Within; Part I: From Strangers to Outcasts; 1. The Guests Who Overstayed; 2. When Integration Fails; 3. The Nativist Nanny State; Part II: From Outcasts to Terrorists; 4. The Danish Cartoon Crisis and the Limits of Free Speech; 5. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Europe's Fantasy of Offshoring; 6. Terror and Backlash; 7. Nostalgia, Fear, and the Front National's Resurrection; Part III: From Terrorists to Usurpers; 8. The Great Replacement; 9. Freedom of Religion-for Some; 10. Barbarians at the Gates