The statement about the retreat from multiculturalism in Europe beyond superficial political rhetoric
DOI :
https://doi.org/10.60054/PEU.2024.11.155-162Ключови думи :
multiculturalism, neo-assimilationism, group rights, identity politics, diversity managementАбстракт
During the last quarter of the 20th century there was a clear trend across Western European democracies toward an increased recognition and accommodation of diversity through a range of multicultural policies and ethno-cultural and religious minority rights. Since the mid-1990s, all these multicultural policies and established measures to grant additional rights to minorities, have met with serious public and political resistance. This shift in the public attitudes (actively voiced by politicians from across the political spectrum) from tolerant multicultural acceptance of cultural diversity towards civic-integrationism and neo-assimilationism (that treat cultural
diversity in a completely different way), has given rise to a phenomenon that has got the name of “the retreat from multiculturalism”. The present text is dedicated to the critical reconstruction of this phenomenon and to the verification of the validity of the main claims and arguments underlying it.
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