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An examination of the varied ways questions related to ethnicity, migration, & statehood are posed in different parts of Europe strives to avoid the oversimplified east-west contrasts that are prevalent in many accounts of contemporary Europe. "Immigrant ethnicity" & "territorial nationality" are described as two ways ethnic heterogeneity can be socially organized & politically expressed. It is maintained that Western Europe endorses the immigrant-ethnicity model in which ethnic groups arise through migration while Eastern Europe sanctions the territorial-nationality model that focuses on indigenous ethnic groups. Attention is called to acute differences between the two groups in political claims made in the name of ethnicity. The immigrant-ethnic model summons politics of anti-discrimination, civil inclusion, & "soft multiculturalism," while territorial nationality stresses claims to public recognition, support for cultural activities, & even special immunities. Problems related to immigration in Western Europe have centered on immigration from the outside as opposed to the Eastern European focus on emigration. The importance of state-building in Eastern Europe is discussed. 50 References. J. Lindroth

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