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Paleoconservatism and the Issue of Immigration and Multiculturalism
Paleoconservatism and the Issue of Immigration and Multiculturalism

Author(s): Barbara Machnik
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Sociology, Migration Studies
Published by: KSIĘGARNIA AKADEMICKA Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: Paleoconservatism; Immigration; Multiculturalism; terrorism and Islam; United States of America;

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with paleoconservative attitudes toward the issue of immigration to the United States and the problem of multiculturalism and assimilation on American soil. Representatives of paleoconservatism present these phenomena as a significant threat to the American way of life. Their words are filled with anxiety for the future of American society, which is instilled with the positive meaning of the idea of open borders, and which is becoming permeated with alien cultures and losing its own cultural identity. Starting with an explanation of the essence of the American nation’s homogeneity, this article presents the threats which come with the ‘mixing’ of cultures and liberal immigration as well as phenomena directly linked to such immigration, namely the problem of terrorism and Islam.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 29-40
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English