The art of soft power banishment. New insights into the Swiss deportation regime

Piñeiro, Esteban; Locher, Nora; Pasche, Nathalie

doi:10.1080/01419870.2021.1989010

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“…Andreas Wimmer and Nina Glick Schiller (2002), in turn, criticize a methodological nationalism still prevalent in the social sciences that take nation-states as given in terms of delimited entities (see Anderson 2019, Towards Methodological Denationalism). Koch et al 2019;Piñeiro et al 2021b). Conscious and unconscious distinctions qua ethnicity are of great consequence here, especially in the form of negative classifications (Neckel and Sutterlüty 2010), which can be accompanied by stigmatizing dominance effects (Elrick and Farah Schwartzmann 2015).…”

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“…Individual values, habitus, and "belief systems" (Soni 2000, 406), as well as the role perception of the actors involved, can be of utmost importance in the provision of public services or sovereign state intervention (Schultheis and Vogel 2014;Piñeiro et al 2021b). Consequently, employees of state institutions cannot fully be understood as rational executors in Weber's sense (Weber 1980(Weber [1921) than as being able to perform their tasks differently depending on the addressee and work situation.…”

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Introduction: Ethnicity and Public Service. How the State Deals with Ethnic Differences

Piñeiro

Wagner

2022

Swiss Journal of Sociology

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and the Nation-StateThe discipline of sociology has a long international tradition of both theoretical and empirical research on processes of ethnic differentiation and the manifold consequences that accompany them (see, for example, Weber 1980Weber [1921Du Bois 1995[1899; Barth 1969). However, it was not until the 1960s that the notion of ethnicity began to spread more widely in the sociological context and established itself as a fundamental concept. As late as the mid-1970s, Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan (1975, 1), in their classic reader, promoted "ethnicity" as "a new term" helping to understand what was meant by "black politics" or "to find a satisfactory place for the French-speaking element in an undivided Canada" (Glazer and Moynihan 1975, 2). The relevance of this new sociological category was high and equivalent to the classical category of social class. In the Anglo-Saxon world, the political demands for a "representative bureaucracy" (Kingsley 1944), which exposed the problems of the relationship between public administration and "ethnic groups or minorities", were also responsible for this increase in significance. One example was the context of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. 1 In German-language sociology, the concept of ethnicity has been gaining in importance since the 1980s, thus returning to a certain extent from the American debate, decades after Max Weber (1980 [1921], 237) had sharpened the concept to his famous sociological definition of an ethnic commonality belief [«ethnischen Gemeinsamkeitsglauben»]. As the ethnic community is increasingly discussed in social sciences towards the end of the 20 th century (Imhof 1997), the nexus of ethnicity and the state in its national (or 1In the meantime, many empirical studies have emerged that attribute an essential role to the representation of ethnocultural diversity in the provision of administrative services or the filling of public positions (see, among

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