Are We Facing Post-Multiculturalism? An Attempt at an Analysis
Are We Facing Post-Multiculturalism? An Attempt at an Analysis

Summary/Abstract: Problems referring to multicultural societies stand at the core of today’s social and political debate across the world. The immigration policy is changing not only in the Americas or Australia, but also in European countries which regularly implement changes with respect to their immigration and integration policy. Multicultural societies undergo a crisis, while the very idea of functioning in a culturally diversified world is sometimes perceived as unreal. Contemporary multiculturalism seems to be adopting a different, redefined form which is more demanding and critical both towards the minority and the indigenous majority. Can we therefore state that present-day societies are nowadays functioning already in the era of post-multiculturalism, or are they experiencing a different form which is only taking its shape now? Can we under the current circumstances speak of the end of multiculturalism? Will the ever more present term ‘post-multiculturalism’ join our debate for good, thus shaping the new look of Europe and the world? The author of the article is trying to evaluate this still evolving idea.

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