Challenging Immigration and Ethnic Relations Politics Comparative European Perspectives

by Koopmans, Ruud; Statham, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780198295600
• ISBN10: 019829560X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

At a time when immigration and ethnic relations issues are hotly disputed across Europe, and challenged by minorities and xenophobes, the explicit aim of this collection is to present substantive cross-national contributions on this new quality of contentious politics. That European countrieshave dealt with the integration of minorities in different ways, often bound up in conceptions of nationhood and citizenship traditions, indicates that research will benefit from more systematic cross-national comparisons. Secondly, the new contentiousness of immigration and ethnic relationspolitics points to a need for more systematic linkages between policy analyses and the public conflicts that are mobilized by xenophobic, minority, and anti-racist movements. Thirdly, although the topics of the extreme right and ethnic minorities have been largely dealt with as distinct fields, agreater cross-thematic conceptualisation is necessary The book divides into four parts. In the first, authors offer conceptual approaches to migration and ethnic relations politics drawing strongly on cross-national observations. Parts two and three are empirical analyses based on a method of systematic cross-national comparison. Whereas theinstitutionalised aspects of immigration and ethnic relations politics are the topic of part two, the third focuses more on the public contentious dimensions. Finally, in light of the important claims that nation-states are no longer the significant framework of reference for politics in aglobalizing world, the contributions to part four address the emergence of the transnational level of political authority and its implications for national and sub-national politics, and challenges by social movements.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
List of Tables	x
List of Contributors	xi
Introduction	1	(10)
Ruud Koopmans
Paul Statham
I. CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES	11	(84)
Migration and Ethnic Relations as a Field of Political Contention: An Opportunity Structure Approach	13	(44)
Ruud Koopmans
Paul Statham
Multiculturalism and Political Integration in Europe	57	(17)
John Rex
Citizenship, Multiculturalism, and the Politics of Identity: Contemporary Dilemmas and Policy Agendas	74	(21)
John Solomos
Liza K. Schuster
II NATIONAL APPROACHES TO MIGRATION AND ETHNIC RELATIONS POLITICS	95	(92)
The Dynamics of Integration Policies: A Multidimensional Model	97	(22)
Han Entzinger
Legal Repression of Extreme-Right Parties and Racial Discrimination	119	(26)
Meindert Fennema
Mobilization of Culture and the Reform of Citizenship Law: Germany and the United States	145	(17)
Christian Joppke
Conflict, Consensus, and Policy Outcomes: Immigration and Integration in Germany and The Netherlands	162	(25)
Dietrich Thranhardt
III MIGRANT AND XENOPHOBIC CHALLENGES TO MIGRATION AND ETHNIC RELATIONS POLITICS	187	(200)
Challenging the Liberal Nation-State? Postnationalism, Multiculturalism, and the Collective Claims-making of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Britain and Germany	189	(44)
Ruud Koopmans
Paul Statham
Reaping What They Sow: Institutions and Immigrant Political Participation in Western Europe	233	(50)
Patrick Ireland
Ethnic Minorities, Cities, and Institutions: A Comparison of the Modes of Management of Ethnic Diversity of a French and a British City	283	(29)
Romain Garbaye
Major Anti-Minority Riots and National Legislative Campaigns Against Immigrants in Britain and Germany	312	(36)
Roger Karapin
Ethnocentric Party Mobilization in Europe: the Importance of the Three-Dimensional Approach	348	(20)
Roger Eatwell
Xenophobic Violence and Ethnic Conflict at the Local Level: Lessons from the Scandinavian Experience	368	(19)
Tore Bjorgo
IV. A TRANSNATIONALIZATION OF MIGRATION AND ETHNIC RELATIONS POLITICS?	387	(42)
Anti-racist Responses to European Integration	389	(18)
Cathie Lloyd
Immigration and European Integration: New Opportunities for Transnational Mobilization?	407	(22)
Adrian Favell
Andrew Geddes
Index	429