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This book discusses the ways civil society initiatives open communities to newcomers and why, how, and under what circumstances some are more welcoming than others, exploring the importance of transgressive cosmopolitanism as a basis for creating more inclusive and pluralistic societies.The question of how to live together in increasingly multicultural, multi-ethnic, and multireligious societies is a pressing political and policy issue, particularly as we witness a rise in right-wing populism and anti-immigrant sentiments. This book addresses the limitations of approaches that seek to secure borders, preventing the arrival of newcomers altogether, or that vacillate between assimilation and multiculturalism. The authors explore the concept of cosmopolitanism and its utility, by theorizing from real-world examples, including Germany's Welcome Culture and Denmark's Kind Citizens movements and other smaller-scale initiatives, such as arts and museum projects, kitchen hubs, and shared living accommodation.Interdisciplinary in nature and bringing conceptual discussions together with everyday examples, this book focuses on forms of activity generally left out of wider debates around protest and social movement literature. It emphasizes different types of activities undertaken by civil society groups, who do not necessarily self-identify as political, but whose activities can counter right-wing populism. This dialogue between concepts and everyday politics makes the volume a very useful companion to classroom discussion and will facilitate its own exchange between scholars, activists, and practitioners.

In a world marked by ever-shifting demographics, the movement of people across borders has become an undeniable facet of contemporary life. Theories and Practices of Global Journeys provides an in-depth exploration of the intricate tapestry of human migration, offering fresh insights into the challenges and triumphs that define the experiences of immigrants, migrants, displaced individuals, and the stateless. This compelling volume delves into seven distinct chapters, each a standalone repository of knowledge. It not only unravels the complexities of migration but also bridges theory and practice to understand the vast landscape of human mobility. In a deeply personal narrative, this book provides a case study of internal and external migration, sharing transformative experiences across different countries and cultures. It reflects the duality of life as a migrant, from adjusting to new surroundings to pursuing advanced studies. This book is a profound exploration of human mobility that transcends academic boundaries. It is a vital resource for scholars, development agencies, policymakers, and all who are committed to the welfare of humanity. Through these pages, we hope not only to expand our understanding of migration but also to contribute to the ongoing dialogue on social well-being, public welfare, and the betterment of our global community.

Assimilation v. Integration in Music Education engages with an existential question for American conservatories and orchestras: What does it mean to diversify Western classical music? Many institutions have focused solely on diversifying the demography of their participants, but without a deeper conversation about structural oppression in classical music, this approach continues to isolate and exclude students of color. Rooted in the author's experience working with BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) students at a major American conservatory, this book articulates the issues facing minority students in conservatories and schools of music, going beyond recruitment to address the cultural issues that alienate students. The author argues that the issue of diversity should be approached through the lens of aesthetics, and that the performance and pedagogy of Western classical music must change if a more diverse membership is to thrive in this genre.Reflecting on the author's experience through the lens of recent critical theory in music education, this volume presents the viewpoints of Black and Latinx music students in their own words. Addressing the impact of racialized aesthetics on the well-being of BIPOC music students, the author shows how students are alienated when attempting to assimilate into conservatory environments and envisions an alternative, integrative approach to conservatory education. Offering a deep dive into the psychological and cultural reasons for the racialization of Western classical music, and potential institutional solutions, this concise book is relevant to performers, students, and institutional leaders.

Looking beyond urban immigration, this ground-breaking book explores how immigrants can become a part of local communities in remote regions. Contributors argue that immigrant integration is place-dependent, and develop new theories, methodologies, and policies that address the specific dynamics of immigration to peripheral areas.Emphasising migrants'attachments to the places they reside in, this book adopts a bottom-up approach to immigrant integration, prioritising the needs of individual agents. It highlights the various methodological flaws and ideological biases of existing theories of integration and provides novel solutions to integration problems. Chapters examine key features of immigration to remote places, including transnational social networks developed by migrants, and translocal and global understandings of place. Ultimately, the book reveals the multi-faceted, multi-layered and socially-constructed nature of immigrant integration.New Methods and Theory on Immigrant Integration will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars in international migration, human geography, ethnic relations, European studies, and sociology. It will also be essential reading for professionals in NGOs and political institutions seeking to develop effective immigration integration policies.

La sociedad monocultural es una falacia, es inviable, porque obligaría a las minorías a integrarse asimilándose: significaría imposición de una cultura sobre las demás con el objetivo de conseguir una uniformización social que facilitara la dominación de un grupo sobre los demás y la eliminación de toda diferencia. En cambio, la diversidad intercultural, sobre la cual versa esta obra colectiva, nos invita a modificar aquello que no queremos; nos insta a crecer y a hacerlo multilateralmente y, para conseguirlo, tenemos que reinventarnos, lo que conlleva reformar los espacios y las estructuras para que el Otro diferente penetre en nuestro mundo y viceversa. Ello implica desmontar argumentos fallidos y no poner tantas trabas a que se exprese la diversidad, esa diversidad que es consustancial a la vida y que implica posibilidad, reafirmación y desarrollo genuino.

This book sheds light on the complex experiences of asylum seekers and refugees in Poland, against a local backdrop of openly anti-refugee political narratives and strong opposition to sharing the responsibility for, and burden of, asylum seekers arriving in the EU. Through a multidimensional analysis, it highlights the processes of forced migrant admission, reception and integration in a key EU frontier country that has undergone a rapid migration status change from a transit to a host country. The book examines rich qualitative material drawn from interviews conducted with forced migrants with different legal statuses and with experts from public administration at the central and local levels, NGOs, and other institutions involved in migration governance in Poland. It discusses both opportunities for and limitations on forced migrants'adaptation in the social, economic, and political dimensions, as well as their access to healthcare, education, the labour market, and social assistance. This book will be of particular interest to scholars, students, policymakers, and practitioners in migration and asylum studies, social policy, public policy, international relations, EU studies/European integration, law, economics, and sociology.

This book brings together philosophical, social-theoretical and empirically oriented contributions on the philosophical and socio-theoretical debate on migration and integration, using the instruments of recognition as a normative and social-scientific category. Furthermore, the theoretical and practical implications of recognition theory are reflected through the case of migration. Migration movements, refugees and the associated tensions are phenomena that have become the focus of scientific, political and public debate in recent years. Migrants, in particular refugees, face many injustices and are especially vulnerable, but the right-wing political discourse presents them as threats to social order and stability. This book shows what a critical theory of recognition can contribute to the debate. The book is suitable for researchers in philosophy, social theory and migration research.'A profound examination of how states and societies struggle to recognize migrants as fellow human beings in all their fullness. The contributions are exceptional for combining astute philosophy and social theory with a discussion of actual politics and real lives.'Dr. Hugo Slim(Senior Research Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and formerly Head of Policy at the International Committee of the Red Cross) “This impressive and timely volume offers an innovative way of understanding the issues of migration and integration by using a critical theory of recognition. Recognition theory has rich potential for effectively responding to the issues of autonomy, identity, integration, and empowerment that are at the core of the current public debates on mass migration, displacement, and the refugee crisis. By examining the normative and policy implications of recognition as they apply to migration, the book offers a pathbreaking look at the human dimension of the debate.”Dr. Helle Porsdam(Professor of Law and Humanities and UNESCO Chair in Cultural Rights University of Copenhagen)

International migration is one of the prominent facts in the contemporary world, which affects the political, socio-economic and cultural processes both in origin and destination countries. Historically, Western Europe has been one of the most attractive destinations for migrants because of the level of socio-economic development and political stability. However, there are many complex institutional, socio-economic and cultural issues to be addressed to achieve the integration of migrants and to eliminate social inequalities between the native populations and migrants in these host countries. In this respect, this book examines some aspects of socio-economic disparities between native populations and the migrants in Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Different migration histories, labour market features and welfare state characteristics of these countries are expected to provide insight about how the integration-related and inequality-related issues emerge in diverse social and institutional settings. The study covers the empirical analyses of the disparities in the labour market and accessing the social benefits between 2004 and 2016 by using comparable cross- country survey data. These analyses attempt to demonstrate the relationships between these two domains. The study has a comparative approach, which aims at providing comparable evidence both across the countries and over time in each of the selected countries.

El libro presenta once trabajos sobre un debate historiográfico, el estudio de cómo se construyeron y asimilaron las diferencias humanas y culturales. Aunque concede una atención especial a América hasta el siglo XIX, integra otros espacios relacionados con la España colonial como Filipinas o Marruecos. La percepción del otro, comenzando por quién designa y es designado como otro, no es un tema nuevo en la historiografía, pero sigue vigente por su capacidad de integrar las visiones de dominadores y dominados, por su metodología interdisciplinar (representada en el libro por la colaboración de historiadores, historiadores del arte o antropólogos) y por la naturaleza universal de algunas de sus conclusiones, las cuales permiten relacionarlo con el presente.En resumen, una propuesta amplia e integradora que interroga al pasado sobre un tema definitorio del ser humano y que, por eso, nunca deja de ser actual. Quizás, si comprendemos los fenómenos de identidad y alteridad como construcciones culturales, podamos favorecer la formación de sociedades más respetuosas y pacíficas.

When it comes to migration, there is no level playing field. Some people are privileged, advantaged, and supported and others are marginalised, persecuted, and traumatised. The extension of the rights and equalities for which many people advocate, and provision of other extrinsic conditions are insufficient for wellbeing. This work asks: what is sufficient? What is it that people do—and can do—to change their experience from suffering to wellbeing when handling challenges of migration and other mobilities?What helps people when they are migrating? What have migrants experienced and learned that could be useful to others facing challenges of mobility and change? How can this learning be applied to promote greater social wellbeing and care of environments, in an increasingly mobile world?Mobilities of Self and Place documents rich conversations with regular migrants and refugees to critically consider migration history, human rights, place, self, and mobilities studies. The work explores ontological and epistemological questions of sense of self, sense of place, identity and agency. Mahni Dugan helps us understand how the relationship between sense of place and sense of self affects the ability of migrants to relocate with wellbeing. The movement from global to local, social to personal, intellectual to experiential offers a broad societal understanding of the phenomena and challenges of contemporary mobilities.

From clandestine images of Jewish children isolated in Nazi ghettos and Japanese American children incarcerated in camps to images of Native children removed to North American boarding schools, classroom photographs of schoolchildren are pervasive even in repressive historical and political contexts. School Photos in Liquid Time offers a closer look at this genre of vernacular photography, tracing how photography advances ideologies of social assimilation as well as those of hierarchy and exclusion. In Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer's deft analysis, school photographs reveal connections between the histories of persecuted subjects in different national and imperial centers. Exploring what this ubiquitous and mundane but understudied genre tells us about domination as well as resistance, the authors examine school photos as documents of social life and agents of transformation. They place them in dialogue with works by contemporary artists who reframe, remediate, and elucidate them. Ambitious yet accessible, School Photos in Liquid Time presents school photography as a new access point into institutions of power, revealing the capacity of past and present actors to disrupt and reinvent them.

En el siglo XIX, la formación de una nacionalidad propia fue un eje central en la construcción de las naciones modernas. En la Argentina ese proceso, simultáneo con la llegada masiva de inmigrantes, implicó un desafío para la formación de los ciudadanos. Se impulsó así un amplio movimiento de carácter nacional, que abarcó instituciones públicas y asociaciones privadas, actividades políticas, culturales y educativas, campañas de opinión y movilizaciones patrióticas. Entonces se pusieron de manifiesto diferentes concepciones de la nación: la de un patriotismo inclusivo, que reconocía la diversidad de la sociedad, y la de un patriotismo nacionalista, que postulaba una sociedad culturalmente homogénea y una raza nacional. Para reconstruir la trama de este complejo proceso, Lilia Ana Bertoni muestra cuáles fueron las estrategias políticas y discursivas en torno de la cuestión nacional, las emociones y tradiciones culturales puestas en juego, el papel atribuido a la escuela y los dispositivos simbólicos que debían activarse para nacionalizar una sociedad de orígenes muy diversos. Lúcido y brillante, Patriotas, cosmopolitas y nacionalistas es un clásico de la historiografía argentina.

«Quiero para mis hijos un mundo que apueste por la convivencia, la diversidad, la pluralidad y el diálogo, sin que nadie tenga que dar explicaciones por sus apellidos o creencias.» Míriam Hatibi en La Vanguardia ¿Qué le pasa al mundo? ¿Qué nos pasa a nosotros? A partir de su propia experiencia, Míriam Hatibi relata en primera persona el descubrimiento de «ser diferente» y la construcción de una identidad plural. En un tono cercano, con inteligencia y agudeza, Hatibi desmonta tópicos y estereotipos sobre la diversidad, y reflexiona sobre los conceptos de integración y asimilación, tolerancia y convivencia. En un momento en que las identidades se ven sacudidas por una profunda crisis, este llamamiento a abrir los ojos y a descubrir al otro -y a la vez a nosotros mismos- es más necesario que nunca. Urge iniciar el diálogo que nos permitirá entendernos. Frente al discurso del racismo y del odio, Míriam Hatibi deconstruye el prejuicio que fractura a la sociedad alzando barreras mentales. Mírame a los ojos es, sobre todo, la firme defensa de una sociedad abierta, basada en el intercambio cultural y el respeto, y que apueste por la convivencia. «Solo cuando sabes quién eres y cómo te defines, puedes decidir hacia dónde vas, diferenciar lo que está bien de lo que está mal, e incluso lo que te gusta y lo que no, lo que aceptas y lo que rechazas. »Se dice que los demás son el espejo en el que nos reflejamos. Si yo me miro en mi propio espejo, soy MíriamHatibi, de Barcelona, ilerdense, española, catalana, marroquí y musulmana. Si me miro en el espejo de los demás, soy Míriam, inmigrante de segunda generación, como si la condición de inmigrante se pudiera heredar. Nuestros padres vinieron aquí a ganarse la vida sin hacer ruido. En cambio los hijos de los inmigrantes somos activos y reivindicativos. »Suelo decir que si fuera un hombre blanco disfrutaría de mucho más tiempo libre porque no tendría que estar justificándome constantemente. Pero también sé que si no hablo, hablarán por mí, y cuando hablan por mí, ya he visto cómo va la cosa. Por eso decido tomar la palabra.»

Based on a study among higher-educated adult children of lower-class Turkish and Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands, this open access book explores processes of identification among social climbers with ethnic minority backgrounds. Using both survey data and open interviews with these ‘minority climbers', the study details the contextual and temporal nature of identification. The results illustrate how ethnicity is contextual but have tangible and inescapable effects at the same time. Also the findings call for a more reflexive use of terms like ethnic ingroup/outgroup and bonding/bridging. Overall, the book helps us understand the emergence of middle-class segments that articulate their minority identities and as such it will be of great interest to academics, policy makers and all those interested in processes of integration and/or diversity.

First published in 1997, this study aims, first, to enlarge upon the understanding of race and ethnicity through a culturalist-comparative frame of analysis, instead of the standard quantitative and political-economy approaches. Secondly, to analyse in systematic form the religious constitution of sociocultural life.Ethnic and race relations are examined in reference to the cultural system of the society, which is conceived in terms of three interrelated aspects of the assimilative process: cultural assimilation, concerning dominant-minority cultural relations; psychosocial assimilation, concerning the question of identity; and biological assimilation, concerning intermarriage. The U.S. and Brazilian cultural systems are contrasted as ideal types of'cultural separatism'and'cultural integration', respectively. Against current thinking, it is argued that the former type crystallizes interethnic conflict and inequality, while the latter is a prerequisite for the full social inclusion of society's members. Finally, the dominant religion and religious culture of each society are addressed as the critical structuring force of social and intergroup relations.

This book explores the understudied and often overlooked subject of African presence in India. It focuses on the so-called Sidis, Siddis or Habshis who occupy a unique place in Indian history. The Sidis comprise scattered communities of people of African descent who travelled and settled along the western coast of India, mainly in Gujarat, but also in Goa, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Sri Lanka and in Sindh (Pakistan) as a result of the Indian Ocean trade from the thirteenth to nineteenth centuries. The work draws from extant scholarly research and documentary sources to provide a comprehensive study of people of African descent in India and sheds new light on their experiences. By employing an interdisciplinary approach across fields of history, art, anthropology, religion, literature and oral history, it provides an analysis of their negotiations with cultural resistance, survivals and collective memory. The author examines how the Sidi communities strived to construct a distinct identity in a new homeland in a polyglot Indian society, their present status, as well as their future prospects.The book will interest those working in the fields of history, sociology and social anthropology, cultural studies, international relations, and migration and diaspora studies.

First published in 1997, This book now opens the unduly delayed discussion about how Israel and the USA deal with immigration and how they are transformed by it. Approaching the discussion from the point of view of contemporary immigration research, this book prioritizes the economic processes of immigrant insertion in Israel and the USA, immigrant absorption and assimilation in both countries, policy debates, and women immigrants for extended treatment. Additionally, a photographic section mobilizes the new subject of visual sociology to continue the comparative analysis.

Seit einigen Jahren finden in Deutschland Einbürgerungsfeiern statt, auf denen neue Staatsbürger offiziell zu Deutschen werden. Was passiert auf diesen Feiern? Warum gibt es sie überhaupt, und was wird auf ihnen über die gesellschaftliche Zugehörigkeit der Neubürger ausgesagt? Anhand einer qualitativen Analyse solcher Feiern thematisiert dieses Buch erstmals, wie auf den Feiern Zugehörigkeit konstruiert wird. Mit vielen Einblicken in die Programmpunkte und Reden auf solchen Feiern zeigt die Autorin auf, dass dabei weniger das Deutschsein an sich, sondern vielmehr alltagsweltliche Einbettungen, kulturelle Kompatibilität oder gesellschaftliche Leistungen eine Rolle spielen. Die darauf aufbauende grundlegende Typologisierung von Zugehörigkeitspraxis im Alltag stellt einen innovativen Beitrag zur sozialwissenschaftlichen Diskussion um soziale Zugehörigkeiten dar.

In culturally diverse societies, one of the biggest questions on our minds is'how shall we all live together?'Mutual Intercultural Relations offers an answer to this fundamental and topical issue. By exploring intercultural relationships between dominant/national and non-dominant/ethnic populations in seventeen societies around the world, the contributors are each able to chart the respective views of those populations and to generate'general'principles of intercultural relations. The research reported in this book is guided by three psychological hypotheses which are evaluated by empirical research: multiculturalism, contact and integration. It was also carried out comparatively in order to gain knowledge about intercultural relations that may be general and not limited to a few social and political contexts. Understanding these general principles will offer help in the development of public policies and programmes designed to improve the quality of intercultural relations in culturally diverse societies around the world.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315268958, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.The image we have of refugees is one of displacement – from their homes, families and countries – and yet, refugee settlement is increasingly becoming an experience of living simultaneously in places both proximate and distant, as people navigate and transcend international borders in numerous and novel ways. At the same time, border regimes remain central in defining the possibilities and constraints of meaningful settlement. This book examines the implications of ‘belonging'in numerous places as increased mobilities and digital access create new global connectedness in uneven and unexpected ways.Belonging and Transnational Refugee Settlement positions refugee settlement as an ongoing transnational experience and identifies the importance of multiple belongings through several case studies based on original research in Australia and New Zealand, as well as at sites in the US, Canada and the UK. Demonstrating the interplay between everyday and extraordinary experiences and broadening the dominant refugee discourses, this book critiques the notion that meaningful settlement necessarily occurs in ‘local'places. The author focuses on the extraordinary events of trauma and disasters alongside the everyday lives of refugees undertaking settlement, to provide a conceptual framework that embraces and honours the complexities of working with the ‘trauma story'and identifies approaches to see beyond it.This book will appeal to those with an interest in migration and diaspora studies, human geography and sociology.

Modern states have evolved as complex political structures in which unitary forms of government maintain an uncertain equilibrium with ethnically plural societies. Historically, ruling elites have tried with little success to eradicate ethnicity through genocide, bury it under accusations of tribalism, discredit it with the mind-frame of modernization, or confine it to local rather than national political arenas. This broad-ranging volume examines the dynamics of ethnic manipulation and accommodation by dominant and subordinate groups in the state-building process.Ethnicity and the State reflects the widely varying political contexts and cultures in which reasons of state contend with unyielding ethnic allegiances. European, South American, Asian, and Middle Eastern examples reveal a consistent set of themes and attitudes. The authors find that while the state must realize its authority and stability through a strictly defined charter of rights and values, ethnic identity exercises its power more freely and flexibly. The sense of peoplehood may be artificially constructed in response to immediate need, or it may be ancient and organic, growing over time. It has the potential to cut across race, class, and gender. Its central tenets and myths may be reinterpreted, recreated, enlarged upon, or modified as the political situation warrants. Flexibility of belief and the need to identify with a larger group account both for the durability of ethnic loyalty and its vulnerability to manipulation.This volume is particularly timely at a moment when national governments in many parts of the world must face the adoption of more equitable forms of rule to hold their ethnically diverse societies together. Taken together, the analyses presented here warn against institutionalizing ethnic strife and offer a vision of how the state may foster expectations and policies that serve the interests of all ethnic groups within their borders. Political scientists, historians, and anthropologists will find this book valuable for its interpretations of forces that continue to reshape the social and political fabric of the world.

Der Band analysiert und diskutiert die gegenwärtigen Ursachen, Formen und Bedingungen von Ungleichwertigkeitsideologien in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft einerseits und zeigt andererseits mögliche gesellschaftliche und pädagogische Handlungsstrategien auf.

This volume sheds new light on how today's peripheries are made, lived, imagined and mobilized in a context of rapidly advancing globalization. Focusing on peripheral spaces, mobilities and aesthetics, it presents critical readings of, among others, Indian caste quarters, the Sahara, the South African backyard and European migration, as well as films, novels and artworks about marginalized communities and repressed histories. Together, these readings insist that the peripheral not only needs more visibility in political, economic and cultural terms, but is also invaluable for creating alternative perspectives on the globalizing present. Peripheral Visions combines sociological, cultural, literary and philosophical perspectives on the periphery, and highlights peripheral innovation and futurity to counter the lingering association of the peripheral with stagnation and backwardness.

As the best single-source collection of classic and contemporary readings on the subject, this anthology will be a valuable reference to scholars of immigration, race and ethnicity, national identity, and the history of ideas, and indispensable for courses in history and the social sciences dealing with these topics.'Ruben G. Rumbaut, co-author of Immigrant America: A Portrait and Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation Societies today are increasingly characterized by their ethnic, racial, and religious diversity. One key question raised by the global migration of people is how they do or do not come to be incorporated into their new social environments. For over a century, assimilation has been the concept used in explaining the processes of immigrant incorporation into a new society. It has also been applied to indigenous peoples, to refugees, and to involuntary migrants caught up in the slave trade. Assimilation has confronted many scholarly challenges which were often intermeshed with particular political agendas. This book allows readers to obtain a clearer sense of the canonical formulation of assimilation theory and an understanding of the key themes and issues contained in current efforts to rethink and revise the classical perspective for today's changing world.

We may say we want to be inclusive, but what if we really don't? What if our brains are hard-wired for selfishness and similarity and not for diversity and altruism? Having a diverse workforce is no guarantee that the work environment is inclusive. Companies hire for diversity and manage for similarity. We hire people for their difference and then teach them directly and indirectly what they have to do to fit in to the corporate culture. The Illusion of Inclusion exposes a myriad of diverse reasons why people are not more fully engaged and offers you the key to unlock the “Geometry of Inclusion”. This book takes the lid off Pandora's box and explores the complexity of inclusion; where affinity bias or “mini-me” syndrome and the need to fit in are unconsciously blocking our ability to be inclusive. It offers a road map and an easy to comprehend model on how to minimize the impact of unconscious and conscious biases in order to embed an inclusive organizational culture.

This volume provides a contemporary reflection on the journey of many former European communities that migrated to Australia in the post-war period and their stories of settlement, assimilation and integration. The chapters provide perspectives from a range of disciplines and approaches across different communities. There are common themes that emerge, as well as unique issues which define these communities.

Der Assimilationsbegriff steht für ein Ensemble migrationssoziologischer Theorien, die sich um den konzeptionellen Kerngedanken der Angleichung von Immigranten gruppieren. Zugleich strukturiert er die politischen Auseinandersetzungen in den westlichen Einwanderungsländern. Jutta Aumüller zeichnet die theoretischen Konzepte der Assimilation in einer geschichtlichen Perspektive nach und kontrastiert sie mit den politischen Diskursen um Integration und Assimilation von zugewanderten Minderheiten seit der Nationalstaatsbewegung im 19. Jahrhundert. Ein kenntnisreicher diskursanalytischer Beitrag zur gegenwärtigen Debatte um Einwanderung und Integration.

This book provides the latest research in ethnic and cultural identity. The first chapter examines the relationship between ethnic identity, culture, body dissatisfaction and related disorder eating behaviors among diverse ethnic groups of adolescent and young female adults. The second chapter discusses migrants'perceptions of intergroup relations and ethnic group statue in the host society. The third chapter provides an overview of research on perceived discrimination, which is considered the most severe stressor for minority individuals given its persuasive impact on health and well-being. The fourth and fifth chapters include discussions on the relationship between openness to experience, ethnocentrism, and ethnic prejudice, and the effects of language policy on ethnic minority language maintenance among a relatively newer community in Manchester. The sixth chapter examines how social, gendered, and economic forces have changed the ways in which family systems create and sustain a familial identity. The second half of the book includes a narrative analysis to explore how a sample of Muslim-identified women attributed meaning to the practice of veiling and the contexts by which women decided to - or not to -wear the hijab; a summary of the results of a qualitative study exploring the influence of discrimination on identity negotiation in transracial international adoptees; provides a review of established health risks to Latino-identifying persons in the United States and successful interventions with various samples; deconstructs the Latin lover stereotype; and finally, maps racial neoliberalism in U.S. popular culture.

Each day, in so many aspects of daily life, we are reminded of the significance of migration and ethnicity. This book is a critical contribution to the understanding of the phenomena of migration and ethnicity, from a Swedish vantage point looking outwards towards a European context. It presents current academic debates and gives a theoretical overview of nine key concepts in the field of ethnic and migrations studies, but it also exemplifies how these concepts could be used in analysing specific empirical cases. It explores the following concepts: ethnicity; migration; diaspora; citizenship; intersectionality; racism; right wing populism; social exclusion; and informalisation. The book is interdisciplinary, embracing areas such as labour studies, economic history, ethnicity, business administration, gender studies, literature studies, economics, educational science, social anthropology, social work, sociology and political science.

Throughout their relatively short history, lesbian and gay movements in the United States have endured searing conflicts over whether to embrace assimilationist or liberationist strategies. The Lesbian and Gay Movements explores this dilemma in both contemporary and historical contexts, describing the sources of these conflicts, to what extent the conflicts have been resolved, and how they might be resolved in future. Rimmerman also tackles the challenging issue of what constitutes movement'effectiveness'and how'effective'the assimilationist and liberationist strategies have been in three contentious policy arenas: the military ban, same-sex marriage, and AIDS. Considerable attention is devoted to how policy elites (presidents, federal and state legislatures, courts) have responded to the movements'grievances.Since the publication of the first edition in 2007, there have been enormous changes in the landscape of lesbian and gay movements and rights. The thoroughly revised second edition includes updated discussion of LGBT movements'undertakings in, as well the Obama administration's response to, AIDS/HIV policy, the fight to legalize same-sex marriage and overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, and the repeal of'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'.

Acculturation has been broadly defined as any change that results from contact between individuals, or groups of individuals, and those from different cultural backgrounds. The conflict and stress that arises adversely affects the health and status of the immigrant, although native populations may also be affected. Current research focuses mainly on behaviors, beliefs and attitudes found in different social, ethnic, religious, age, and other groups. However, there is no general consensus as to the components or characteristics of acculturation, or how they should be measured and assessed. Other fundamental concerns include the wide variability in the measurement of human thought and response, the lack of generalizability and uniformity evidenced by the many survey instruments and scales used for different groups and populations today, and the difficulty in demonstrating a clear relationship between components of acculturation and health and other outcomes. This book discusses the psychology, processes and global perspectives of acculturation.

Bustamante provides a rare insight of the border as an entire transnational social field, with a similar racial and ethnic composition. He finds a borderlands region patterned by political oppression and gender inequality. This oppressive situation and the lack of access to institutional resources entice families to seek and use resources provided by Mexican relatives across the border. This salient issue places transnational engagement as a strategy based on available options, not a preferred choice. Therefore, transnationalism is an approach that many border immigrants would like to avoid. Finally, Steven Gold's definition of transnational engagement is employed to theoretically capture family life shaped by numerous external conditions that transcend national borders.

​Mitarbeiterentsendungen haben im Rahmen der Globalisierung von Märkten und Unternehmen hohe Bedeutung. Zentral für den Entsendungserfolg ist die Anpassung von Expatriate-Familien an die Kultur des Gastlandes. Melanie Wortmann untersucht das Erleben des Alltags und typischer Probleme von US-amerikanischen Expatriate-Familien in Deutschland mittels qualitativer Interviews. Unter Berücksichtigung bisheriger Erkenntnisse aus Internationalem Management, Akkulturations- und Expatriateforschung beschreibt sie eine kritische Anpassungsphase sowie ein für den Entsendungserfolg notwendiges Anpassungsniveau. Die Autorin gibt außerdem praktische Empfehlungen für das Entsendungsmanagement.

Multiculturalism is a prevalent worldwide societal phenomenon. Aspects of our modern life, such as migration, economic globalization, multicultural policies, and cross-border travel and communication have made intercultural contacts inevitable. High numbers of multicultural individuals (23-43% of the population by some estimates) can be found in many nations where migration has been strong (e.g., Australia, U.S., Western Europe, Singapore) or where there is a history of colonization (e.g., Hong Kong). Many multicultural individuals are also ethnic and cultural minorities who are descendants of immigrants, majority individuals with extensive multicultural experiences, or people with culturally mixed families; all people for whom identification and/or involvement with multiple cultures is the norm. Despite the prevalence of multicultural identity and experiences, until the publication of this volume, there has not yet been a comprehensive review of scholarly research on the psychological underpinning of multiculturalism. The Oxford Handbook of Multicultural Identity fills this void. It reviews cutting-edge empirical and theoretical work on the psychology of multicultural identities and experiences. As a whole, the volume addresses some important basic issues, such as measurement of multicultural identity, links between multilingualism and multiculturalism, the social psychology of multiculturalism and globalization, as well as applied issues such as multiculturalism in counseling, education, policy, marketing and organizational science, to mention a few. This handbook will be useful for students, researchers, and teachers in cultural, social, personality, developmental, acculturation, and ethnic psychology. It can also be used as a source book in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on identity and multiculturalism, and a reference for applied psychologists and researchers in the domains of education, management, and marketing.

Der sprachliche Umgang mit Migration ist nicht selten Gegenstand von Auseinandersetzungen: Was wird gesagt? Was wird nicht gesagt? Wie wird es gesagt? Was darf und was darf nicht gesagt werden? Anliegen der Autorinnen und Autoren ist es aufzudecken, auf welche Weise „Sprache“ und „Sprechen“ im Kontext von Migration – als Gegenstand und als Medium – wirken. Aus der Perspektive der interkulturellen Bildungsforschung und der sozialwissenschaftlichen Migrationsforschung wird analysiert, wie sich sprachliche Hegemonie ausprägt und welche Macht Sprache entfalten kann. Die Beiträge diskutieren zum einen die Rechtmäßigkeit von Sprache(n) und Sprechen sowie dessen Reglementierung und führen zum anderen exemplarisch Untersuchungsmöglichkeiten in der Migrationsforschung vor.

Die politische Auseinandersetzung um Zuwanderung ist von einer klaren Spaltung in erwünschte und unerwünschte MigrantInnen geprägt, indem unverhohlen ökonomische Kriterien für die Aufnahme von MigrantInnen festgeschrieben werden. Am anderen Ende geht die inhumane Auseinandersetzung mit'unerwünschter'Migration weiter, indem im Dunkelfeld zwischen Asylbewerberheimen und Abschiebehaft sogenannte'Ausreisezentren'geschaffen werden sollen, die bei mangelnden rechtlichen Voraussetzungen für eine Abschiebung mittels sozialem und psychischem Druck eine'freiwillige Ausreise'erzwingen sollen. Eine Thematisierung der systematischen sozialen und rechtlichen Ausgrenzung von MigrantInnen fehlt ebenso wie eine intensive Diskussion in der Pädagogik und Sozialen Arbeit, welchen Beitrag sie zur sozialen Mindestsicherung für nicht-europäische MigrantInnen leisten können und wie sich das Profil der interkulturellen Pädagogik in diesem Rahmen verändert. Diese Lücken versucht das Buch schließen.

Die Institution der Staatsbürgerschaft (Citizenship) scheint in modernen Gesell­ schaften eine Selbstverständlichkeit zu sein. Sie gilt offensichtlich unhinterfragt als gegeben und unproblematisch, und die Sozialwissenschaften haben ihr des­ halb lange Zeit wenig Interesse entgegengebracht. Nach einer langen Phase, in der die Staatsbürgerschaft schon völlig von der Tagesordnung verschwunden schien, hat sich dies in den vergangenen Jahren grundlegend geändert: Staats­ bürgerschaft steht inzwischen im Zentrum wichtiger gesellschaftspolitischer Debatten. Eines der zentralen Problemfelder stellt das Verhältnis von Staatsbür­ gerschaft und Immigration dar. In Deutschland hat sich die Soziologie merkwür­ digerweise fast vollständig aus dieser Diskussion herausgehalten - von einer Auseinandersetzung um Staatsbürgerschaft kann in der Disziplin keine Rede sein. Zugleich hat die politische Diskussion um das Verhältnis von Staatsbürger­ schaft und Immigration Hochkonjunktur. Sie ist gekennzeichnet durch ein kultu­ ralistisches Übergewicht, und auf beiden Seiten des politischen Spektrums ran­ ken Mythen und Legenden um die Rechtsinstitution der Staatsbürgerschaft. Eine Einmischung in diese Debatte aus der Perspektive einer kritischen Soziologie ist bisher nicht zu vernehmen. Diese Lücke gilt es zu füllen. Die folgende Studie setzt sich deshalb zum Ziel, sowohl die wissenschaftliche Diskussion voranzu­ bringen als auch zur Versachlichung der politischen Diskussion beizutragen. Die vorliegende Arbeit wurde im Juli 1998 von der Philosophischen Fakultät III der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin als Dissertation angenommen. An dieser Stelle möchte ich einigen Personen danken, die zum Gelingen die­ ser Arbeit beigetragen haben.

Im Mittelpunkt des Buches stehen Biographien von Jugendlichen ausländischer Herkunft in der Schweiz. Die Auswertung der erzählten Lebensgeschichten zeigt, dass insbesondere das Erlangen einer höheren Stellung im sozialen Raum, aber auch die Suche nach Zugehörigkeit und Anerkennung sowie Erfahrungen von sozialem Ausschluss und Diskriminierung wichtige Themen in den Biographien der zweiten Generation darstellen. Erkennbar wird ein komplexes Ineinandergreifen von sozialen Aufstiegs- und Ausschlussprozessen, das sich je nach sozialem Ort, an dem sich die Jugendlichen befinden, anders gestaltet. Die Analysen der erzählten Lebensgeschichten machen deutlich, wie und durch welche Mechanismen soziale Positionen erlangt, zugeteilt und reproduziert werden. Damit rücken die Fragen ins Zentrum, wie sich'Klasse'und'nationale Herkunft'als Kategorien sozialer Ungleichheit im biographischen Verlauf verschränken und in welchem Verhältnis individuelles Handeln und strukturell bestimmte Möglichkeiten zueinander stehen.

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.

Most scholars of genocide focus on mass murder. Lawrence Davidson, by contrast, explores the murder of culture. He suggests that when people have limited knowledge of the culture outside of their own group, they are unable to accurately assess the alleged threat of others around them. Throughout history, dominant populations have often dealt with these fears through mass murder. However, the shock of the Holocaust now deters today's great powers from the practice of physical genocide. Majority populations, cognizant of outside pressure and knowing that they should not resort to mass murder, have turned instead to cultural genocide as a “second best” politically determined substitute for physical genocide. In Cultural Genocide, this theory is applied to events in four settings, two events that preceded the Holocaust and two events that followed it: the destruction of American Indians by uninformed settlers who viewed these natives as inferior and were more intent on removing them from the frontier than annihilating them; the attack on the culture of Eastern European Jews living within Russian-controlled areas before the Holocaust; the Israeli attack on Palestinian culture; and the absorption of Tibet by the People's Republic of China. In conclusion, Davidson examines the mechanisms that may be used to combat today's cultural genocide as well as the contemporary social and political forces at work that must be overcome in the process.

The publication of this volume is significant in three respects. First, it represents a major concern of the international mental health movement in its effort to gain deeper understanding of migration and its mental health implications in our increasingly mobile modern societies. Second, it epitomizes continuous international cooperation of colleagues dedicated to the cause of tackling this important mental health problem. Third, it stands as another milestone in the growth of the World Federation for Mental Health through its biennial world congresses. I sincerely hope that the empirical observations of real·life events contained in this volume will stimulate others to add their own experiences and perspectives on these topics at future congresses. It is also hoped that certain models of problem solving reported by the collaborators of this book may find wider application and that the results will be communicated to others. It is through such ensuing developments that the World Federation for Mental Health wishes to, and can, fulfIll its roles of advocacy and international communication in promoting international mental health. My gratitude goes to Richard Nann and his colleagues for having made this timely contribution available.

Based on a flagship research project for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Immigration and Inclusion programme, this book argues that social cohesion is achieved through people (new arrivals as well as the long-term settled) being able to resolve the conflicts and tensions within their day-to-day lives in ways that they find positive and viable.

Mit Migration und Integrationsforschung befassen sich viele Disziplinen, doch jeweils mit unterschiedlichen Sichtweisen, Methoden und theoretischen Konzepten. Die Aufgabe dieses Buches ist es, diese Sichtweisen, Methoden und Konzepte im Überblick und im Vergleich darzustellen. Dabei wird deutlich, dass nicht eine und in sich geschlossene Migrations- und Integrationsforschung zu definieren ist, sondern viele unterschiedliche Forschungsansätze mit spezifischen Perspektiven der Erkenntnis. Das Buch, welches nun in einer zweiten, überarbeiteten und erweiterten Auflage erschienen ist, dient der Einführung in das Themenfeld und richtet sich nicht nur an Studierende, sondern auch an ein breiteres Publikum, das sich umfassend und thematisch breit mit Migration und Integrationsforschung befassen möchte.

Acculturation is the exchange of cultural features that results when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous first hand contact; the original cultural patterns of either or both groups may be altered, but the groups remain distinct. This book gathers the most current research in the study of acculturation from across the globe. Some topics discussed in this compilation are acculturation and its influence on adolescent interpersonal and self-directed violence; acculturation success in employment among Chinese migrants from the Mainland to Hong Kong; and the dynamics of second-culture acquisition for Latino immigrant adolescents

With globalization and the ever-increasing migration of professionals, issues related to learning an additional language and culture in professional contexts are prominent in many contemporary societies. Drawing upon data from an extensive research study of internationally educated professionals, this book examines the affordances and constraints to successful professional acculturation, and the relationships between identity, agency, and the acquisition of professional language and culture.The author provides a succinct review of socially informed theories of second language acquisition, and presents a unique analysis of identity and agency that incorporates the work of Erik Erikson and George Herbert Mead with Vygotsky's sociocultural theory and Lave and Wenger's community of practice framework. Given the pervasive problem of the underemployment of internationally educated professionals in many contemporary immigrant-receiving societies, this book makes a timely contribution that not only advances scholarship but also has important practical and policy implications.

In this timely examination of children of immigrants in New York and London, Natasha Kumar Warikoo asks, Is there a link between rap/hip-hop-influenced youth culture and motivation to succeed in school? Warikoo challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture -- the clothing, music, and tough talk -- to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives. Using ethnographic, survey, and interview data in two racially diverse, low-achieving high schools, Warikoo analyzes seemingly oppositional styles, tastes in music, and school behaviors and finds that most teens try to find a balance between success with peers and success in school.

Despite decades of policy interventions and awareness raising programmes, migration and mobility continue to give rise to tensions and questions of how to live together in a culturally diverse world. Managing Cultural Change takes a new approach to these challenges, re-examining responses to migration and mobility as part of a process of managing wider cultural change. Presenting research from a range of settings, from liberalising India, global workplaces in Asia, and migrant youth culture in Sydney, this book explores the manner in which cultural change disturbs established frames of reference. In considering affective responses to these liminal moments of disruption, it argues that adaptive strategies such as'demarcating difference'and're-placing home', that is, reasserting belonging, are deployed in order to reclaim a sense of synchronicity within the self and with a transforming external environment. With attention to the prevalence and durability of the processes and tensions inherent in cultural change, the author also examines the intercultural, or cosmopolitan, competencies developed in interaction with difference, and whether it is possible to'teach'people these skills in order to re-find'cultural fit'and manage change in a constantly shifting world. Contributing to research on transnational migration and mobility studies, while developing the use of conceptual tools such as'cultural fit'and'liminality', Managing Cultural Change will be of interest to sociologists, geographers and anthropologists working in the fields of globalisation, migration and transnational communities, ethnicity and identity, belonging and cosmopolitanism.

One fifth of the population of the United States belongs to the immigrant or second generations. While the US is generally thought of as the immigrant society par excellence, it now has a number of rivals in Europe. The Next Generation brings together studies from top immigration scholars to explore how the integration of immigrants affects the generations that come after. The original essays explore the early beginnings of the second generation in the United States and Western Europe, exploring the overall patterns of success of the second generation.While there are many striking similarities in the situations of the children of labor immigrants coming from outside the highly developed worlds of Europe and North America, wherever one looks, subtle features of national and local contexts interact with characteristics of the immigrant groups themselves to create variations in second-generation trajectories. The contributors show that these issues are of the utmost importance for the future, for they will determine the degree to which contemporary immigration will produce either durable ethno-racial cleavages or mainstream integration.Contributors: Dalia Abdel-Hady, Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown, Maurice Crul, Nancy A. Denton, Rosita Fibbi, Nancy Foner, Anthony F. Heath, Donald J. Hernandez, Tariqul Islam, Frank Kalter, Philip Kasinitz, Mark A. Leach, Mathias Lerch, Suzanne E. Macartney, Karen G Marotz, Noriko Matsumoto, Tariq Modood, Joel Perlmann, Karen Phalet, Jeffrey G. Reitz, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Roxanne Silberman, Philippe Wanner, Aviva Zeltzer-Zubida, andYe Zhang.

With wit and cunning, Noble's poems insinuate themselves into the mediations of'we use language'/'language uses us,'into the objectification of'mind,'into the struggles and cracking of systems. Cuing on Hegel's epochal revitalization of the syllogism, they begin with sentences-cum-arguments that issue from an everyman's intentions and insights, playing into and baiting the'sociality of reason.'In the cut-up sentences then come the restless, accelerated themes—themes that exist only in their variations, ghosting into one another like the dusk and the dawn in a winging, distended now.