Immigration Processes in a Globalizing World: Issues and Trends
In the age of globalization migration as a social phenomenon has undergone truly fundamental changes. A qualitative growth of immigration from developing countries to the developed world causes a transformation of ethno-national and confessional landscape in the Western societies. It is accompanied by shaping of identity conflicts which takes the most visible forms in the EU countries. The article aims to provide a theoretical interpretation of this phenomenon and to point out the main contradictions in allochtone groups' integration. It focuses specifically on the comparison of immigration policies in the U.S. and European countries (Germany, in particular). The authors emphasize the necessity of developing the measures and tools for stimulating intercultural consensus and highlights that this mission must be a responsibility of nation-states.