Troubled Taxonomies and the Calculating State: Everyday Categorizing and “Race-Ethnicity”—The Netherlands Case

Yanow, Dvora; Haar, Marleen van der; Völke, K.

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“…A closer look shows that earlier state interventions had also been prone to use this practice. A wide array of policy analyses portrays the fact that states tend to hierarchise people to ensure control and rationalise divisible and indivisible resources Yanow et al 2016). Categories are used to separate people and to rank their worth, their needs and the respect which they can be given, in order to justify differential degrees of deservingness.…”

Section: Categorisation and Hierarchisationmentioning

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The Politics of Disintegration

Hayes¹

2019

Politics in Pakistan

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Section: Categorisation and Hierarchisationmentioning

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The Politics of Disintegration

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2019

Politics in Pakistan

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“…A closer look shows that earlier state interventions had also been prone to use this practice. A wide array of policy analyses portrays the fact that states tend to hierarchise people to ensure control and rationalise divisible and indivisible resources (Mügge and Van der Haar 2016;Yanow et al 2016). Categories are used to separate people and to rank their worth, their needs and the respect which they can be given, in order to justify differential degrees of deservingness.…”

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Conclusions: Perspectives and Puzzles in Researching Politics of (Dis)Integration

Zentai¹

2019

IMISCOE Research Series

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Much has been written in academia about integration following migration to and within Europe in the post-WW II era. Integration has served as a central term in political, policy and scholarly debates to denote principles, discourses, interventions and social practices which ensure sustained interactions and cooperation across different groups or parts of society, including those who were born within and outside of particular, typically state, borders. The ideal of integration has mastered both the feared and the cherished aspects of social difference. Disintegration, in turn, has been posited as a concept referring to processes that neglect, diminish, dilute or deliberately deconstruct what liberal political systems have promoted through the idea of integration. (Dis)integration is investigated in this volume to examine the complex interactions and controversies of the twin processes of integration and disintegration by which societies and policies respond to people moving across (nation-state) borders and contribute to redrawing the social landscapes where they arrive. A European perspective is extended to other migrant destinations in the global North, more precisely to Israel and Canada, in order to offer insights into diverse domestic social and political practices as well as cross-national debates on the politics of human mobility. The authors in this volume have originally contemplated to explore the politics of integration by engaging in multi-layered investigations into how migrants and refugees are defined, placed or moved by policies, institutions, and administrative protocols, yet deliberately, tacitly or inadvertently affecting institutions and relations in society at large. As highlighted in the introduction, the contributing authors have explored a whole continuum of practices producing integration and disintegration, often simultaneously or interlaced. The exchanges, cross-readings, and horizontal conversations across the authors' collective have helped the editors acknowledge that the nuanced attention to the processes of integration and

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“…In considering the population categorization used in the policy paper, the implicit criteria of grouping, and the ways in which the stipulated groups are labeled ("nomination") and described ("predication") (Reisigl and Wodak 2009), we are influenced by Dvora Yanow's work on population categorization (Yanow 2003;Yanow and van der Haar 2011;Yanow et al 2016), which suggests and illustrates how "public policies are collective narratives comprising collective knowledge and identities as they link a memory of the past to the present and possibly to some future as well" (2003: 7). Yanow highlights the following elements, among others:…”

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Citizens and Citizenship

Rem¹,

Gasper²

2018

The International Journal of Social Quality

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The past generation has seen a switch to restrictive policies and language in the governance of migrants living in the Netherlands. Beginning in 2010, a new government with right-wing populist backing went further, declaring the centrality of proposed characteristic historic Dutch values. In this article, we investigate a key policy document to characterize and understand this policy change. Discourse analysis as an exploration of language choices, including use of ideas from rhetoric, helps us apply and test ideas from governmentality studies of migration and from discourse studies as social theorizing. We trace the chosen problem formulation; the delineation, naming, and predication of population categories; the understanding of citizenship, community, and integration; and the overall rhetoric, including chosen metaphors and nuancing of emphases, that links the elements into a meaning-rich world picture. A “neoliberal communitarian” conception of citizenship has emerged that could unfortunately subject many immigrants to marginalization and exclusion.

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Troubled Taxonomies and the Calculating State: Everyday Categorizing and “Race-Ethnicity”—The Netherlands Case

Cited by 26 publications

References 36 publications

The Politics of Disintegration

The Politics of Disintegration

Conclusions: Perspectives and Puzzles in Researching Politics of (Dis)Integration

Citizens and Citizenship

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