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Despite many decades of large-scale immigration in advanced industrial societies, public debate about ethnic and religious diversity has recently become increasingly focused on issues of social cohesion, cultural values and national security, especially in the wake of incidents of international terrorism (Kymlicka, 2007). Such anxieties exist in Europe, where it is alleged that different or inferior values may threaten national identity and have a damaging effect on social cohesion, leading to violence and a loss of freedom and national and personal security (Entzinger, 2003; Vasta, 2008). At the heart of the debate is not simply the idea that too much immigration is a problem, but that state policies have failed due to a misplaced tolerance for cultural difference on the part of the receiving society (Koopmans, 2006).
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Vasta, E. (2015). Generations and Change: Affinities Old and New. In: Castles, S., Ozkul, D., Cubas, M.A. (eds) Social Transformation and Migration. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137474957_18
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