‘The mission of integration’: Repression, subjugation and discipline in civic nationalist education policy and practice. Themed issue to be edited by Dr Francis Farrell (Edge Hill University), Professor Vini Lander (Leeds Beckett University) and Dr Shereen Shaw (Edge Hill University)

The geopolitical transformations that took place in the wake of the 9/11 al Qaeda attacks have been marked by the end of multi culturalism in many western democracies and the resurgence of a defensive, exclusionary politics of national identity.