Jan Willem Duyvendak is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. Previously, he was Director of the Verwey-Jonker Research Institute for Social Issues (1999-2003) and Professor of Community Development at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His latest books include The Politics of Home: Nostalgia and Belonging in Western Europe and the United States (2011), Crafting Citizenship: Negotiating Tensions in Modern Society (2012, co-authored with Menno Hurenkamp and Evelien Tonkens), European States and Their Muslim Citizens: The Impact of Institutions on Perceptions and Boundaries (2014, co-edited with John Bowen, Christophe Bertossi, Mona Lena Krook), New York and Amsterdam: Immigration and the New Urban Landscape (2014, co-edited with Nancy Foner, Jan Rath and Rogier van Reekum), Players and Arenas: The Interactive Dynamics of Protest (2015, co-edited with James M. Jasper), and The Culturalization of Citizenship: Belonging and Polarization in a Globalizing World (2016, co-edited with Peter Geschiere and Evelien Tonkens). In 2013-2014, Duyvendak was Distinguished Fellow at the Advanced Research Collaborative at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In Spring 2016 he was Research Fellow at the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies. From July 2017 -July 2019 he was Executive Committee Chair at Council for European Studies. Since January 1st 2018 he is rector of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (NIAS-KNAW).

Josip Kesic is a researcher and lecturer in sociology and social work at the Inholland University of Applied Sciences, where he focuses on the practical application of "Social Reflexivity" in educational and professional settings, i.e. the awareness of oneself as relationally and contextually connected to others. He studied sociology and South-Slavic literature at the University of Amsterdam. After extensively teaching social theory at the sociology department, the subsequent teaching topics at the department of European Studies were nationalism studies, European literature, and philosophy of humanities. He also has published regularly for broad audiences on themes related to identity politics and cultural stereotyping.

Timothy Stacey is a Researcher in the Urban Futures Studio at the Utrecht University and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria.

"How are we to understand and respond to the expansion of nativism across the globe? In their brilliant appraisal of 'a nativist logic' in the Netherlands, France, and the US, the authors conclude with wise--and urgent--advice for liberals. Structural shifts are behind this turn, they argue, but what counts more is narrative. And liberals need to work on theirs. Get curious about how a narrative works, how it appeals to our yearning to belong. Try creating a liberal narrative which invites the listener into a home which has the feel of comfort with difference-in race, creed, national origin, sexual orientation-and even difference in political opinion. Civilization is a work in progress, and this book helps us do that work." --Arlie Russell Hochschild, Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of California Berkeley, and author of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

"The Return of the Native is a well-informed, ambitious, and surprising comparative study of nativism and how it shapes boundaries toward racial and religious minorities and women, by mobilizing shared values of enlightenment and tolerance, inherited from liberalism. The authors do a splendid job at presenting a complex thesis clearly and convincingly. This book will certainly have a significant impact on scholarly exchanges around these topics for time to come." --Michèle Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, and author of The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class and Immigration

"In this path-breaking work, the authors argue for the growing importance of nativism, or the opposition to an internal minority because of its foreignness. Nativism rests on a naturalized link between a category of people and a particular place that supports claims to prerogatives and rights-and exclusion of the non-native. Beginning with the Dutch case, the authors examine how nativism interacts with racism, nationalism, populism, and, in today's European context, Islamophobia. They draw on decades of collaborative work to explore the several iterations of nativism across countries, and attune us to the dangers of its left-liberal forms, which trumpet the superiority of one's own national values. They also set out ways to promote an alternative vision, that of a liberal politics of belonging. A clear analysis of ideas and forces that trouble the politics of today." --John R. Bowen, Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor, Washington University, and author of Can Islam Be French?