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According to public media and policy debates, the multicultural society has failed. In these debates, people who hold dual citizenship are criticized for their lack of loyalty to their new country, because it is assumed that a person can feel at home only in one country and in one place. Although the focus on the group and the country can vary, the content of the discourse in Western countries is almost always the same (Andersen and Biseth 2013: 10). Migrants are seen as a threat to national security and social cohesion if they are not willing to respect Western values such as freedom of speech and human rights (Bouras 2013: 1228; Glick Schiller 2013: 32).
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Brouwer, L. (2016). “I’m Not Different—Because Everybody Is Different”: Notions of Belonging among Muslims in the Netherlands. In: Ennaji, M. (eds) New Horizons of Muslim Diaspora in North America and Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137554963_7
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