Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Reinventing nationhood -- From nation to nationhood -- non-Western critique of concepts -- Eurocentric bias -- cornered state -- Nation branding -- Which immigrants? -- Which refugees? -- Who gets what, when, how -- Typologies of the nation -- Kulturnation and nationhood -- Minorities into majorities -- Nationhood summarised -- 2. Prejudices and partialities -- Confronting bias -- secular clash with religiosity -- Attributing racism -- Religious intolerance -- Language prejudice -- Comparing biases -- 3. Who belongs -- Migration rising -- Belonging: elusive or illusionary? -- First Nations -- Nativism and nationhood -- Not belonging -- Propositions -- 4. `Imperial' Russia -- Federalism and ethnicity -- imperial idea -- Eurasianism to the rescue -- Multinational or multicultural? -- Nationhood in flux -- Migration in Russia -- Russification without nationhood -- 5. Multicultutalising Britain -- devolved unitary monarchy -- Hyper-diversity and Brexit -- Britishness explained -- God's treasured first-born -- Nationhood exemplified: Race Equality Acts -- Attitudes towards minorities -- British Muslims -- After Brexit -- 6. Immigrant America -- How new a way to nationhood -- national dialect -- Manifest destiny and exceptionalism -- Elitism and exclusion -- Immigrant Americans -- Immigration writ large and small -- Identities and divisions -- Race and anxiety -- Has America lost its mind? -- 7. Multinational India -- Majority and majority -- British Raj and Indian nationalism -- Mutiny and nation -- Towards partition -- Famine -- Hindu nationalism triumphant -- Flawed nationhood -- Climate refugees -- BJP rising -- 8. Multiracial South Africa -- Troubled legacy -- violence of colonialism -- Identity obsession -- Elections and nationhood -- Zulu as historic nation -- Xenophobia without racism -- Not belonging -- again -- Of kings and presidents -- 9. Peru -- Indigenas, Mestizos, Criollos -- Migration and social class -- Indigeneity -- Casta representations -- March to the cities -- Integrating into urban culture -- Extranjeros -- Untying the Gordian Knot.