Outsiders No More? Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation

by Hochschild, Jennifer; Chattopadhyay, Jacqueline; Gay, Claudine; Jones-Correa, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780199311316
• ISBN10: 0199311315
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-07-31
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Outsiders No More? brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to consider pathways by which immigrants may be incorporated into the political processes of western democracies. At a time when immigrants are increasingly significant political actors in many democratic polities, this volume makes a timely and valuable intervention by pushing researchers to articulate causal dynamics, provide clear definitions and measurable concepts, and develop testable hypotheses. By including historians, sociologists, and political scientists, by ranging across North America and Western Europe, by addressing successful and failed incorporative efforts, this handbook offers guides for anyone seeking to develop a dynamic, unified, and supple model of immigrant political incorporation.

Author Biography

Jennifer L. Hochschild is Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University.
Jacqueline Chattopadhyay is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Claudine Gay is Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University
Michael Jones-Correa is Professor of Government at Cornell University.