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"A treasure trove" -- Thomas B. Edsall, The New York Times "Trenchant and groundbreaking work" -- Molly Ball, TIME Magazine "A joy to read. . . A tour de force" -- Eric Kaufmann, University of London How do societies respond to great demographic change? This question lingers over the contemporary politics of the United States and other countries where persistent immigration has altered populations and may soon produce a majority minority milestone, where the original ethnic or religious majority loses its numerical advantage to one or more foreign-origin minority groups. Until now, most of our knowledge about largescale responses to demographic change has been based on studies of individual people's reactions, which tend to be instinctively defensive and intolerant. We know little about why and how these habits are sometimes tempered to promote more successful coexistence. To anticipate and inform future responses to demographic change, Justin Gest looks to the past. In Majority Minority, Gest includes historical analysis and interview-based fieldwork inside six of the world's few societies that have already experienced a majority minority transition to understand what factors prod

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Author

Justin Gest

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780197641804

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences