Balance State of Multi-Ethnic Nation-State

Immigrants, Ethnic Identities and the Nation-State

Immigrants, Ethnic Identities and the Nation-State In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form “nationhood,” igniting the interest to understand and model identity. The complexity of identity formation, however, has been firm and ethnic and national identities have been deviating more and more. In this paper, we seek to investigate the nature, role and relationshi...

The Challenges Facing State-Nation-Building in Israel

Completing the nation-building process for survival is one of the challenges that the Zionist regime has always faced. This regime has based its existence on a specific and complex identity that, at first glance, can be a strong point for the survival and formation of a society, but the specific characteristics of this identity based on race and population inequality, for This has posed some ch...

The State of the Nation

State of the Nation: Employment

While there has been an improvement in some dimensions of immigrant labour market perf o r mance over time, immigrants of non-English speaking background are carrying an incre a s i n g l y inequitable burden of unemployment in the 1990s compared with the 1970s. This is particularly the case for women, young people and refugees. In short, the gap in unemployment rates betwe e n the Australian b...

Piece Positioning the nation - state

Having a clear, differentiated positioning gives a country an advantage in attracting investment, business and tourism, and in building markets for its exports. Countries like Greece, Spain and Chile are successfully repositioning themselves using coordinated marketing and highly visible events like the Olympics. Positioning and national image also matter greatly in public diplomacy and cannot ...