Illiberal Means to Liberal Ends? Understanding Recent Immigrant Integration Policies in Europe

Triadafilopoulos, Triadafilos

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2011.576189

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“…Thus, many policies focus on helping immigrants improve their level of proficiency in the majority language (Triadafilopoulos 2011;Goodman 2010). People who emigrate in early childhood (Bleakley and Chin 2004) and whose mother tongue is similar to the majority language (Chiswick and Miller 2001) are generally more successful in acquiring the local language.…”

Section: Integration and Return Migration: A Negative Relationshipmentioning

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Ethnic differences in integration levels and return migration intentions

Anniste¹,

Tammaru²

2014

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Section: Integration and Return Migration: A Negative Relationshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethnic differences in integration levels and return migration intentions

Anniste¹,

Tammaru²

2014

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“…Second, there is a widespread acceptance that liberalism has become a cornerstone of the 'us' that collective identities refer to (Triadafilopoulos, 2011). The uniting element we can observe in most European integration policies of recent years is a postulated value consensus among the established population (Adamson, Triadafilopoulos, & Zolberg, 2011).…”

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Who We Are Is What We Believe? Religion and Collective Identity in Austrian and German Immigrant Integration Policies

Mattes

2017

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Immigrant integration is a contested policy field in which boundaries of membership are drawn and re-negotiated whereby groups of immigrants are partially included and excluded. Building on the concept of collective identity and theories of boundary making, this paper illustrates how religion functions as a category to mark and fill notions of self and otherness. As several studies have shown, immigrants in Europe are increasingly addressed as Muslims, a development that also serves the promotion of a Christian 'us'. Focusing on Austria and Germany, two countries where this is especially observable, the paper outlines the functioning of religion as symbolic boundary. The empirical study on national integration policies demonstrates how-within the relational process of boundary drawing against Muslims-a Christian identity narrative is established, how it functions as a marker of unity and how it relates to liberal and secular notions. Results from the qualitative content analysis of governmental policy programs from 2005 onwards show different patterns of boundary drawing on religion and the way they shape and limit the possibilities of inclusion. To understand this development, we have to look at Christian-democratic policy-makers, who currently dominate the political struggle for the power to define features of collective identity in immigrant integration policies.

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“…26 For a helpful review of these models of egalitarian capitalism, see Ackerman, Alstott and Van Parijs (2006) and O'Neill and Williamson (2012) 27 For overviews of this trend, see Joppke (2007); Goodman (2010Goodman ( , 2014. 28 As Triadafilopoulos (2011) puts it, these policies manifest a "Schmittian liberalism". 29 Interestingly, this effect is not found in Canada (Breton, 2015).…”

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Solidarity in diverse societies: beyond neoliberal multiculturalism and welfare chauvinism

Kymlicka

2015

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In the postwar period, projects of social justice have often drawn upon ideas of national solidarity, calling upon shared national identities to mobilize support for the welfare state. Several commentators have argued that increasing immigration, and the multiculturalism policies it often gives rise to, weaken this sense of national solidarity. This creates a potential "progressive's dilemma", forcing a choice between solidarity and diversity. My aim in this paper is two-fold: first, to argue for the importance of national solidarity as a progressive political resource; and second, to discuss how it can be reconciled with support for immigration and multiculturalism. I will try to identify the prospects for a multicultural national solidarity -a multicultural welfare state, if you will -and to contrast it with the two obvious alternatives: a neoliberal multiculturalism that champions mobility and diversity at the expense of national solidarity; and a welfare chauvinism that champions national solidarity at the expense of immigrants and minorities.

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Illiberal Means to Liberal Ends? Understanding Recent Immigrant Integration Policies in Europe

Cited by 132 publications

References 46 publications

Ethnic differences in integration levels and return migration intentions

Ethnic differences in integration levels and return migration intentions

Who We Are Is What We Believe? Religion and Collective Identity in Austrian and German Immigrant Integration Policies

Solidarity in diverse societies: beyond neoliberal multiculturalism and welfare chauvinism

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