Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe – Ruud Koopmans, Paul Statham, Marco Giugni, and Florence Passy
Author(s): Ruud Koopmans, Paul Statham, Marco Giugni, and Florence Passy
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Print Length: 376 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Cultural Studies, Non-Fiction / Politics & Political Science
Area: Europe
Topic: Citizenship, Cultural Relativism, Diversity, Immigration System, Migrants, Multiculturalism, Nation, Politics & Power, Racism & Anti-Racism, Transnationalism
From international press coverage of the French government’s attempt to prevent Muslims from wearing headscarves to terrorist attacks in Madrid and the United States, questions of cultural identity and pluralism are at the center of the world’s most urgent events and debates. Presenting an unprecedented wealth of empirical research garnered during ten years of a cross-cultural project, Contested Citizenship addresses these fundamental issues by comparing collective actions by migrants, xenophobes, and antiracists in Germany, Britain, France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.
Revealing striking cross-national differences in how immigration and diversity are contended by different national governments, these authors find that how citizenship is constructed is the key variable defining the experience of Europe’s immigrant populations. Contested Citizenship provides nuanced policy recommendations and challenges the truism that multiculturalism is always good for immigrants. Even in an age of European integration and globalization, the state remains a critical actor in determining what points of view are sensible and realistic—and legitimate—in society.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: The Contentious Politics of Immigration and Ethnic Relations
1. Configurations of Citizenship in Five European Countries
2. Beyond the Nation-State? National and Postnational Claims Making
3. Migrants between Transnationalism and National Citizenship
4. Minority Group Demands and the Challenge of Islam
5. The Extreme Right: Ethnic Competition or Political Space?
6. Interest or Identity? Pro-Migrant and Antiracist Actors
7. Contested Citizenship: Conclusions and Future Directions
Appendix: The Coding of Political Claims Making
Notes
References
Index
Ruud Koopmans is a Dutch professor of sociology at Humboldt University in Berlin and director of the ‘Migration, Integration and Transnationalisation’ department at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB). His research interests include social movements, citizenship, integration, European integration, religious fundamentalism and evolutionary sociology.
Source: https://lias.eu/lias-fellow/ruud-koopmans/
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Paul Statham is Professor of Migration and Director of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR) in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. The SCMR is one the University’s few designated Interdisciplinary Research Centres. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS) that was ranked no1 in “Ethnic Studies” in the 2017 impact factor ratings. Paul convenes the Masters MA Migration Studies and the Doctoral Programme in Migration at Sussex. In 2015, he established the Sussex-Mahidol Migration Partnership (SMMP – www.sussexmahidolmigration.co.uk) to build a capacity in migration research between Europe and SE Asia. In 2016, a further partnership the Europe Asia Migration Network (EAMiN – www.eamin.org) was established between migration centres in the two regions, including the SCMR, MMC (Mahidol, Thailand), ARI (NUS Singapore), PRIO (Norway), BIM (Humboldt Berlin, Germany) and CUHK (Hong Kong). In Spring semester 2017, he held the position of Distinguished Professor at the Advanced Research Collaborative at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York.
Source: https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p72922-paul-statham
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Marco Giugni is Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations and Director of the Institute of Citizenship Studies (InCite) at the University of Geneva. His research focuses on social movements and political participation. He is European Editor of Mobilization.
Source: https://www.coursera.org/instructor/giugni
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Florence Passy is an academic researcher from University of Lausanne. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social movement & Politics. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 56 publications. Previous affiliations of Florence Passy include Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies & University of Geneva.
Source:https://scispace.com/authors/florence-passy-ygykcwebem
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