ISBN:
9780199311330
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (369 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.906912
Keywords:
Immigrants -- Political activity
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Assimilation (Sociology)
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Outsiders No More? brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to consider pathways by which immigrants may be incorporated into the political processes of western democracies. At a time when immigrants are increasingly significant political actors in many democratic polities, this volume makes a timely and valuable intervention by pushing researchers to articulate causal dynamics, provide clear definitions and measurable concepts, and develop testable hypotheses. By including historians, sociologists, and political scientists, by ranging across North America and Western Europe, by addressing successful and failed incorporative efforts, this handbook offers guides for anyone seeking to develop a dynamic, unified, and supple model of immigrant political incorporation.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Authors' Biosketches -- Acknowledgments and Dedication -- Introduction -- PART ONE: AREIMMIGRANTS DISTINCTIVE? -- 1. Incorporation versus Assimilation: The Need for Conceptual Differentiation -- 2. Is Incorporation of Unauthorized Immigrants Possible? Inclusion and Contingency for Nonstatus Migrants and Legal Immigrants -- 3. Tracks of Immigrant Political Incorporation -- 4. Ideas and Institutions in Immigrant Political Incorporation -- 5. Immigrant Political Incorporation: Beyond the Foreign-Born versus Native-Born Distinction -- PART TWO: HOW BROAD IS POLITICS IN IMMIGRANT POLITICAL INCORPORATION? -- 6. Dimensions of Immigrant Political Incorporation -- 7. Culture, Context, and the Political Incorporation of Immigrant- Origin Groups in Europe -- 8. Structuring Immigrants' Civic-Political Incorporation into the Host Society -- 9. The Importance of Demographic and Social Contexts in Determining Political Outcomes -- 10. Thru-Ways, By-Ways, and Cul-de-Sacs of Immigrant Political Incorporation -- PART THREE: HOW SHOULD ONE APPROACH THE TOPIC OF INCORPORATION? -- 11. "The Great Concern of Government": Public Policy as Material and Symbolic Resources -- 12. The Political Economy of Immigrant Incorporation into the Welfare State -- 13. Continuity and Change in the Citizenship Laws of Europe: The Impact of Public Mobilization and the Far Right -- 14. Political Opportunity Structures and the Mobilization of Anti-Immigration Actors: Modeling Effects on Immigrant Political Incorporation -- 15. Behavioral and Attitudinal Components of Immigrant Political Incorporation -- 16. Assimilation and Political Attitude Trade-Offs -- 17. Moving Up and In: Two Dimensions of Immigrant Political Incorporation -- 18. Acquiescence or Transformation? Divergent Paths of Political Incorporation in America.
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