Bringing Outsiders In : Transatlantic Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation.
Material type:
- text
- computer
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- 9780801461972
- Immigrants -- Political activity -- North America -- Congresses
- Immigrants -- Political activity -- Europe, Western -- Congresses
- Political participation -- North America -- Congresses
- Political participation -- Europe, Western -- Congresses
- North America -- Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects -- Congresses
- Europe, Western -- Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects -- Congresses
- 325.73
- JV6351 -- .B75 2009eb
Cover -- BRINGING OUTSIDERS IN -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART I. FRAMEWORKS -- 1. Setting the Context -- 2. Modeling Immigrant Political Incorporation -- PART II. EXPLORING IMMIGRANT POLITICAL INCORPORATION -- 3. Immigrants and Their Offspring in Europe as Political Subjects -- 4. Lost in Translation? A Critical Reappraisal of the Concept of Immigrant Political Incorporation -- PART III. IMMIGRANTS' LOCAL POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURES -- 5. Swiss Citizenship: A Municipal Approach to Participation? -- 6. The New Urban Politics of Integration: A View from the Gateway Cities -- 7. Political Institutions and Rainbow Coalitions: Immigrant-Minority Relations in New York and Hartford -- PART IV. IMMIGRANTS' NATIONAL POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURES -- 8. Successes and Failures of Muslim Integration in France and Germany -- 9. A Multicultural Paradise? The Cultural Factor in Dutch Integration Policy -- 10. Anti-Immigrant Politics in Europe: The Radical Right, Xenophobic Tendencies, and Their Political Environment -- 11. Immigrants' Incorporation in the United States after 9/11: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back -- 12. Building through Exclusion: Anti-Immigrant Politics in the United States -- PART V. IMMIGRANTS' POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURES BEYOND THE STATE -- 13. The End of Closet Political Transnationalism? The Role of Homeland Politics in the Political Incorporation of Turks and Kurds in Europe -- 14. Organizing Immigration Interests in the European Union: Constraints and Opportunities for Supranational Migration Regulation and Integration -- PART VI. IMMIGRANTS' POLITICAL RESOURCES AND STRATEGIES -- 15. The State and Ethno-Religious Mobilization in Britain -- 16. Differences in the City: Parallel Worlds, Migration, and Inclusion of Differences in the Urban Space.
17. In Pursuit of Inclusion: Citizenship Acquisition among Asian Immigrants -- 18. Entering the Precincts of Power: Do National Differences Matter for Immigrant Minority Political Representation? -- PART VII. THE ROAD AHEAD -- 19. Understanding Immigrant Political Incorporation through Comparison -- Notes -- References -- Contributor Biographies -- Index.
Leading social scientists present individual cases and work toward a comparative synthesis of how immigrants affect--and are affected by--civic life on both sides of the Atlantic.
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