Bringing Outsiders In

by Hochschild, Jennifer L.; Mollenkopf, John H.

• ISBN13: 9780801475146
• ISBN10: 0801475147
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

For immigrants, politics can play a significant role in determining whether and how they assimilate. In Bringing Outsiders In, leading social scientists present individual cases and work toward a comparative synthesis of how immigrants affect-and are affected by-civic life on both sides of the Atlantic. Just as in the United States, large immigrant minority communities have been emerging across Europe. While these communities usually make up less than one-tenth of national populations, they typically have a large presence in urban areas, sometimes approaching a majority. That immigrants can have an even greater political salience than their population might suggest has been demonstrated in recent years in places as diverse as Sweden and France. Attending to how local and national states encourage or discourage political participation, the authors assess the relative involvement of immigrants in a wide range of settings. Jennifer Hochschild and John Mollenkopf provide a context for the particular cases and comparisons and draw a set of analytic and empirical conclusions regarding incorporation. Contributors: Richard Alba, CUNY Graduate Center; Sandro Cattacin, University of Geneva; Gianni D'Amato, University of Neuchatel; Jan Willem Duyvendak, University of Amsterdam; Nancy Foner, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center; Luis Fraga, University of Washington; Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University; Christian Joppke, American University of Paris; Gallya Lahav, SUNY Stony Brook; Marco Martiniello, University of Liege; Michael Minkenberg, New York University and European University Viadrina; Lorraine Minnite, Barnard College and Columbia University; Tariq Modood, University of Bristol; John Mollenkopf, CUNY Graduate Center; Eva Ostergaard-Nielsen, Autonomous University of Barcelona; Adrian Pantoja, Pitzer College; Trees Pels, Verwey-Jonker Institute for Social Research; Rally Rijkschroeff, Verwey-Jonker Institute for Social Research; Reuel Rogers, Northwestern University; Peter Schuck, Yale Law School and New York University Law School; Raphael Sonenshein, California State University, Fullerton; Janelle Wong, University of Southern California

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Frameworks	p. 1
Setting the Context	p. 3
Modeling Immigrant Political Incorporation	p. 15
Exploring Immigrant Political Incorporation	p. 31
Immigrants and Their Offspring in Europe as Political Subjects	p. 33
Lost in Translation? A Critical Reappraisal of the Concept of Immigrant Political Incorporation	p. 48
Immigrants' Local Political Opportunity Structures	p. 61
Swiss Citizenship: A Municipal Approach to Participation?	p. 63
The New Urban Politics of Integration: A View from the Gateway Cities	p. 74
Political Institutions and Rainbow Coalitions: Immigrant-Minority Relations in New York and Hartford	p. 93
Immigrants' National Political Opportunity Structures	p. 111
Successes and Failures of Muslim Integration in France and Germany	p. 115
A Multicultural Paradise? The Cultural Factor in Dutch Integration Policy	p. 129
Anti-Immigrant Politics in Europe: The Radical Right, Xenophobic Tendencies, and Their Political Environment	p. 140
Immigrants' Incorporation in the United States after 9/11: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back	p. 158
Building through Exclusion: Anti-Immigrant Politics in the United States	p. 176
Immigrants' Political Opportunity Structures Beyond the State	p. 193
The End of Closet Political Transnationalism? The Role of Homeland Politics in the Political Incorporation of Turks and Kurds in Europe	p. 195
Organizing Immigration Interests in the European Union: Constraints and Opportunities for Supranational Migration Regulation and Integration	p. 211
Immigrants' Political Resources and Strategies	p. 231
The State and Ethno-Religious Mobilization in Britain	p. 233
Differences in the City: Parallel Worlds, Migration, and Inclusion of Differences in the Urban Space	p. 250
In Pursuit of Inclusion: Citizenship Acquisition among Asian Immigrants	p. 260
Entering the Precincts of Power: Do National Differences Matter for Immigrant Minority Political Representation?	p. 277
The Road Ahead	p. 295
Understanding Immigrant Political Incorporation through Comparison	p. 297
Notes	p. 317
References	p. 325
Contributor Biographies	p. 363
Index	p. 367
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Excerpts

For immigrants, politics can play a significant role in determining whether and how they assimilate. In Bringing Outsiders In, leading social scientists present individual cases and work toward a comparative synthesis of how immigrants affect-and are affected by-civic life on both sides of the Atlantic. Just as in the United States, large immigrant minority communities have been emerging across Europe. While these communities usually make up less than one-tenth of national populations, they typically have a large presence in urban areas, sometimes approaching a majority. That immigrants can have an even greater political salience than their population might suggest has been demonstrated in recent years in places as diverse as Sweden and France. Attending to how local and national states encourage or discourage political participation, the authors assess the relative involvement of immigrants in a wide range of settings. Jennifer Hochschild and John Mollenkopf provide a context for the particular cases and comparisons and draw a set of analytic and empirical conclusions regarding incorporation.