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"In today's Europe, where the standard of living has risen dramatically since 1900 and urbanization has affected most families, the challenge is to recognize the humanity of children of immigrants and to include them in democratic practices and working life. This requires the problematizing, not of immigrants or human migration, but of racism and exclusion.

The twentieth centrury brought wars and hostilities to Europe, in the 1914 to 1945 period, but from the ashes of those hostilities emerged an impulse for peace and unity that hopefully will outlast the destructive forces of nationalism and ethnic arrogance.

These impulses have been institutionalized for international cooperation in bodies such as the European Union, which, however, also acts to exclude non-EU citizens. Nonetheless, the hope for lasting peace on the continent and unity in the European Union may lie in its ability to affirm pluralistic societies.

And although it would be naive to believe that today's vibrant racialized ideologies of domination and exclusion will quickly atrophy, history has demonstrated that longstanding enmities can fade and be tamed by the rule of law."

[Lesley Page Moch, Moving Europeans]



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