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标题：Re-Imagining the Nation
其他标题：Lessons from the Debates of Immigration in a Settler Society and an Ethnic Nation
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作者：Harald Bauder ; Harald Bauder
期刊名称：Comparative Migration Studies
电子版ISSN：2214-594X
出版年度：2014
卷号：2
期号：1
页码：9-27
DOI：10.5117/CMS2014.1.BAU2
语种：English
出版社：Springer
摘要：Abstract In the context of immigration and settlement, Canada and Germany are often portrayed as opposites: Canada represents a settler society and Germany an ethnic nation. The different approaches and attitudes of the two countries towards immigration can be linked to different historical understandings of nationhood. Canada could not be imagined as a country without its immigrants; immigration is an integral aspect of national identity. Conversely, although Germany has always received immigrants, national identity has historically been conceived in ethnic terms. In this paper, I explore some of the contradictions in Canadian and German immigration debates related to national belonging. For example, Canada’s identity as a settler society has long marginalized Indigenous populations, while in German debate the narratives of ethnically-belonging Germans and newly-arriving migrants openly engage with each other. By exploring these contradictions, I develop a perspective of the dialectic of migration and ethnic belonging that can be applied to both Canada and Germany.
关键词：immigration;migration;settler society;ethnic nation;national imagination;Indigenous;nationhood;dialectic;Canada;Germany