Whiteshift: Immigration, Populism and White Majorities
28 February 2019, 6:15 pm–7:45 pm
Event Information
Open to
- All | UCL staff | UCL students | UCL alumni
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Abi Turner020 7679 494
Location
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A V hill Lecture016: Medical Sciences and AnatomyGower StreetLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
Whiteshift argues that the current upsurge of right-wing populism in the West stems from the existential plight of white majorities in an age of large-scale North-South migration. Based on extensive survey, demographic and electoral data rather than anecdotes and impressions, it sets out four main white responses to ethnic change: fight, flee, repress and join. It looks ahead, projecting the rise of mixed-race majorities in the West, but viewing this less as a futuristic end of identity than evidence for Whiteshift, the absorption of a great deal of ethnoracial difference into historic white majorities.
About the Speaker
Eric Peter Kaufmann
Professor of Politics at Birkbeck
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