ПРИТИСНУТИ МУЛТИКУЛТУРАЛИЗАМ
DEPRESSED MULTICULTURALISM

Author(s): Alpar Lošonc
Subject(s): Politics, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: multiculturalism; late capitalism; migrations; crisis; unemployment
Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes the tendencies that have to do with different aspects of multiculturalism. The starting point is that there are certain irreversible reflexive achievements that confirm the paths of multiculturalism in the late capitalism. At the same time, the triumphalist statements according to which multiculturalism definitively won the battle are criticized. It is always a subject of heterogeneous interpretations with contingent results. Furthermore, while critically dealing with the culturalism that neglects the social frames, the author especially emphasizes the intertwining of the experience of multiculturalism and socio-economic determinations. First, light is shed on different tendencies that are of special importance in the context of the mentioned determinations, such as crisis-ridden phenomena, prolonged unemployment, and the experience of uncertainty. The tendencies of the ethnification of socio-economic problems and naturalization of structural trajectories are particularly highlighted. This draws the author’s attention to the constellation in the post-socialist countries confronted with the so-called competitive migration processes. The author suggests that there is never a point where multiculturalism is as an ending point and concludes that it does not constitute a stationary horizon. There are different sources of multiculturalism and this fact forces the mentioned countries to be creative in the interpretation of multiculturalism.

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