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The revival of ethno-nationalisms1 both within and outside Europe and the dramatic increase of immigration flows from the Third World and Central and Eastern Europe towards EU countries, have swept into their influence the Mediterranean countries including the two countries examined in this chapter, Italy and Greece. Since the late 1980s, these two countries have become hosts of large numbers of immigrants from Albania, Poland and Romania, and also from African and Asian countries; other chapters in this book provide details on the scale and character of these movements (see especially Chapters 2 and 3).
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Triandafyllidou, A. (2000). ‘Racists? Us? Are You Joking?’ The Discourse of Social Exclusion of Immigrants in Greece and Italy. In: King, R., Lazaridis, G., Tsardanidis, C. (eds) Eldorado or Fortress? Migration in Southern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333982525_9
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