Since the 1980s, anti-immigrant discourse has shifted away from the color of immigrants to their religion and culture, focusing on newcomers from Muslim countries who are feared as terrorists and the products of tribal societies with values fundamentally opposed to those of secular western Europe. Leo Lucassen's The Immigrant Threat tackles the question of whether it is reasonable to believe that the integration process of these new immigrants will indeed be fundamentally different in the long run (over multiple generations) from ones experienced by similar immigrant groups in the past. - Amazon.com.

Introduction -- Part 1. Old Migrants : The religious threat : Irish migrants in Britain (1840-1922) -- A threat to the nation : Poles in Germany (1870-1940) -- A threat to the native workers : Italians in France (1870-1940) -- Old threats, new threats : conclusion and preview -- Part 2. New Migrants : The discomfort of color : Caribbean migrants in Great Britain (1948-2002) -- Foreigners within? Turks in Germany (1960-2002) -- Islam and the colonial legacy : Algerians in France (1945-2002) -- Conclusion.