The ‘Swedish model’ as an institutional framework for immigrant membership rights

Soininen, Maritta

doi:10.1080/1369183x.1999.9976710

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“…Whether this is by accident or by design -especially in the case of centre-right parties who stand to gain in terms of their opportunities to form governments -is a moot point (see Bale, 2003). Certainly, there are few centreright parties that have showed much reluctance when it comes to talking up the issues concerned -the Swedes (notwithstanding the country's retreat from multiculturalism as detailed by Soininen, 1999) and, until the mid 1990s perhaps, the Italians (Calavita, 1994, though see Perlmutter, 1996 being the exceptions that seem to prove the rule. Whether acknowledging this fact, and offering up as further evidence the more detailed contributions to the rest of this special issue, will ever make an impact on the gnomic pronouncements of the galacticos of the global intellectual circuit is another matter.…”

Section: Why (Mainstream Centre-right) Parties Mattermentioning

confidence: 99%

Turning round the telescope. Centre-right parties and immigration and integration policy in Europe1

Bale¹

2008

Journal of European Public Policy

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A recent 'state of the art' review of the political science literature on migration notes that myriad studies 'have provided evidence that a range of actors influence policy outcomes. They include organised interest groups, courts, ethnic groups, trade unions, law and order bureaucracies, police and security agencies, local actors and street-level bureaucrats and private actors ' (Lahav and Guiraudon, 2006: 207).Missing from the list (although, to be fair, they later make a brief appearance in a table as 'conduits of public opinion') are organisations that one might have expected to have had some say in the matter. Their absence, however, is not unusual even if it is curious: as a contribution to one recent edited collection puts it, 'political parties have received relatively short shrift among students of the politics of migration'; they 'enter the story as minor characters with undefined roles' (Triadafilopoulos and Zaslove, 2006: 171, 176) This is almost certainly because, with a handful of exceptions

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Section: Why (Mainstream Centre-right) Parties Mattermentioning

confidence: 99%

Turning round the telescope. Centre-right parties and immigration and integration policy in Europe1

Bale¹

2008

Journal of European Public Policy

182

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“…En viktig orsak till deĴ a är statens strävan eĞ er översyn och kontroll över sociala rörelser och förenings-livet, grundat i eĞ erkrigstidens korporativa system, med institutionaliserade relationer mellan de tongivande sociala parterna arbetarrörelsens samt arbetsgivares organisationer. Under årtionden har etniska föreningar ingåĴ i eĴ hierarkiskt och byråkratiskt system (Soininen 1999). DeĴ a system har å ena sidan garanterat dem fortgående kontakter med staten och därmed eĴ visst inĚ ytande för FBEG (Aytar 2006).…”

Section: Etnicitet Och Föreningsliv I Sverige: En Bakgrundunclassified

Villkorat partnerskap: Demokrati och social inkludering i relationer mellan bildningsförbund och föreningar bildade på etnisk grund

Dahlstedt¹,

Ålund²,

Ålund³

2010

DKSOC

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Artikeln belyser samverkan mellan sammanslutningar bildade på etnisk grund och folkbildningens studieförbund i Sverige. Engagemang för social inkludering har fåĴ en ökad betydelse för "invandrarföreningar". Samtidigt är dessa föreningar inte sällan utsaĴ a för stigmatisering och försaĴ a i en underordnad position. Med utgångspunkt i fältarbete i det mångetniska Stockholm pekar förfaĴ arna på hur "invandrarföreningar" har blivit till institutionaliserade samverkansaktörer i nya former av partnerskap (mellan till exempel stat och kommun, frivilligorganisationer och näringsliv) där de har tagit över en rad servicefunktioner i och med välfärdsstatens pågående omvandling. Exemplet samverkan kring folkbildning visar på eĴ starkt ojämlikt partnerskap mellan "invandrarföreningar" och studieförbund. Några av de omständigheter som lyĞ s fram som problematiska är brist på dialog, kulturellt deę nierade hierarkier mellan "svenskar" och "invandrare" och en allt starkare anpassning i förhållande till marknadens krav och förväntningar.Sökord: Folkbildning, invandrarföreningar, partnerskap, inkludering, exkludering.Demokrati och social inkludering i relationer mellan bildningsförbund och föreningar bildade på etnisk grund

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“…In line with this tradition, researchers of immigrant political engagement have argued that a country's legal and institutional frameworkparticularly citizenship and residency laws-as well as political parties, trade unions, and other interest groups supportive of migration create opportunities for newcomers' political engagement (Ireland, 1994(Ireland, , 2000Koopmans, 1999Koopmans, , 2004Koopmans & Statham, 2000;Koopmans, Statham, Giugni, & Passy, 2005;Soininen, 1999;Statham, 1999;Togeby, 1999).…”

Section: Opinion Climates and Immigrant Political Actionmentioning

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Opinion Climates and Immigrant Political Action

Just

Anderson

2013

Comparative Political Studies

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We develop a model of immigrant political action that connects individual motivations to become politically involved with the context in which participation takes place. The article posits that opinion climates in the form of hostility or openness toward immigrants shape the opportunity structure for immigrant political engagement by contributing to the social costs and political benefits of participation. We argue that friendly opinion climates toward immigrants enable political action among immigrants, and facilitate the politicization of political discontent. Using survey data from the European Social Survey (ESS) 2002 to 2010 in 25 European democracies, our analyses reveal that more positive opinion climates-at the level of countries and regions-increase immigrant political engagement, especially among immigrants dissatisfied with the political system. However, this effect is limited to uninstitutionalized political action, as opinion climates have no observable impact on participation in institutionalized politics.

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The ‘Swedish model’ as an institutional framework for immigrant membership rights

Cited by 60 publications

References 4 publications

Turning round the telescope. Centre-right parties and immigration and integration policy in Europe1

Turning round the telescope. Centre-right parties and immigration and integration policy in Europe1

Villkorat partnerskap: Demokrati och social inkludering i relationer mellan bildningsförbund och föreningar bildade på etnisk grund

Opinion Climates and Immigrant Political Action

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