POLICY OF MULTICULTURALISM AND IMMIGRANTS. THE EXPERIENCE OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND CONCLUSIONS FOR POLAND (Polityka wielokulturowosci i immigranci. Doswiadczenia panstw europejskich i wnioski dla Polski)

• Authors: Hryniewicz Janusz T.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Multiculturalism is a kind of social policy that consists in the cultural neutrality of the state. In Western Europe it has shaped huge environments of immigrants derived from non-European cultures. Because of a great cultural distance between European societies and immigrants, assimilation of the latter turned out to be more difficult than had initially been expected. In response to such a situation, European states began to implement a multicultural social policy. In effect, a huge number of immigrant behaviors proved to stand in contradiction to human rights but consistent with multiculturalism. Nowadays we can observe a contestation (but not abandonment) of a multicultural policy and growth of anti immigrant attitudes. There is a tendency to gradually diminish multiculturalism and place more emphasis on human rights.

Keywords

EN

ASSIMILATION; IMMIGRANTS; MULTICULTURALISM; SOCIAL POLICY

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Instytut Zachodni. Instytut Naukowo-Badawczy im. Zygmunta Wojciechowskiego w Poznaniu
• Journal: Przegląd Zachodni
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 3(332)
• Pages: 231-250
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Hryniewicz Janusz T.

• Janusz T. Hryniewicz, Instytut Zachodni, Instytut Naukowo-Badawczy, ul. Mostowa 27, 61-854 Poznan, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA081821