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Introduction
Immigrant life in the age of extremism
Interculturalism, historical memory and the politics of belonging
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Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Multiculturalism, interculturalism and belonging
- 3.Empire, commonwealth and the historical production of the migrant question
- 3.1Metropole, colony and the Atlantic world
- 3.2Citizenship, immigration control and Windrush
- 3.3Brexit and the afterlives of empire
- 3.4Historical method and comparison
- 4.Extremism, mainstream politics and the politics of fear
- 5.Introducing the five contributions
- 6.Conclusion
- Notes
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