Immigration in Germany
In Germany's upcoming election, the red-green coalition is on the ropes. But it has bequeathed modern citizenship, immigration and asylum laws
Tag: Race and immigration
Previous convictions
Le Pen makes me question my French nationality
Poor whites
Poor whites in places like Burnley have an idea of justice which is at odds with the modern, liberal state. Their sense of losing out from immigration cannot simply be dismissed as racism
Outrageous Fortuyn
The pampered Dutch voted for Fortuyn because he made politics fun
Not so solid
The arrest of rapper Ashley Walters should force the black community to speak out loud about its problems
Sense on segregation
Segregation along class, racial or religious lines is inevitable and will happen even in tolerant, liberal societies like Britain.
Liberal anti-racism
Positive discrimination is nearly defunct in America, so why should it work over here?
Asylum fixers
Wahidallah fled Afghanistan because journalists got him into trouble. So I got him into Britain. But how would he adapt to new life?
Payback time
America should pay its black citizens reparations for slavery and end the farce of affirmative action
Other people
The modern left values both solidarity and diversity, but they can conflict. A strong notion of Britishness helps them to cohabit—the left still needs the nation
National good
The ethnically homogeneous nation-state is alive and well. It remains the largest feasible focus for both belonging and democracy
The other Brubeck
How South African jazz survived apartheid
Multicultural flaws
One of America's leading black conservatives pokes fun at multiculturalism in education
Immigration & asylum in the EU
Asylum and immigration are truly pan-European issues. Most EU states cut back on primary immigration in the 1970s, but are now affected by the rise in asylum-seekers. Given the EU's ageing population, is a return to selective immigration inevitable?
Letter from North Carolina
Latinos, please don't go home
Race and reality
No one should be compelled to join an all-singing, all-dancing celebration of multi-ethnic Britain
Less race, please
Contrary to the Lawrence inquiry, blacks and whites want to live in a society less aware of race, not more
Second chance in Berlin
What makes a city great? It needs hungry outsiders struggling to become insiders. This explains why Berlin will never again be a great city, even when it becomes the capital of the united Germany in 1999
Liberalism and its limits
Ten years after the publication of The Satanic Verses, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown considers how it forced Muslims in the west, as well as the white liberal intelligentsia, to confront the limits of freedom of speech and multiculturalism