Just Ordinary Citizens?
Towards a Comparative Portrait of the Political Immigrant
Published on 17. February 2016
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-1-4426-4648-3 (ISBN)
Description
Since the 1960s, the number of immigrants living in liberal democracies has been steadily rising. Despite the existence of numerous studies on social, economic, and geographic integration, few books have addressed the integration of immigrants into the politics of their host countries. When it comes to politics, are immigrants just ordinary citizens? This edited collection considers the political integration of immigrants in a number of liberal democracies. Just Ordinary Citizens? offers a behavioural perspective on the political integration of immigrants, describing and analysing the relationships that immigrants develop with politics in their host countries. The chapters provide both unique national insights and a comparative perspective on the national case studies, while editor Antoine Bilodeau offers both a framework within which to understand these examples and a systematic review of more than 300 studies of immigrant political integration from the last sixty years.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
13 figures
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
550 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4426-4648-3 (9781442646483)
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Person
Antoine Bilodeau is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University and a member of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship.
Content
Introduction (Antoine Bilodeau) Part 1. Immigrant Political Integration in Western Democracies Chapter 1. New Voters, Different Votes? A Look at the Political Participation of Immigrants in Amsterdam and Rotterdam (Anja van Heelsum, Laure Michon, and Jean Tillie) Chapter 2. Is It Really Ethnic Voting? Ethnic Minorities in Local Elections in Brussels (Dirk Jacobs, Celine Teney, Andrea Rea, and Pascal Delwit) Chapter 3. British Citizens like Any Others? Ethnic Minorities and Elections in the United Kingdom (Shamit Saggar) Chapter 4. Does Prior Socialization Define Patterns of Integration? Mexican Immigrants and Their Political Participation in the United States (Michael Jones-Correa) Chapter 5. How Strong Is the Bond? First and Second-Generation Immigrants and Confidence in Australian Political Institutions (Juliet Pietsch and Ian McAllister) Chapter 6. How Much Do They Help? Ethnic Media and Political Knowledge in the United States (Chris Haynes and Karthick Ramakrishnan) Chapter 7. Enabling Immigrant Participation: Do Integration Regimes Make a Difference? (Marc Helbling, Tim Reeskens, Cameron Stark, Dietlind Stolle, and Matthew Wright) Part 2. Immigrant Political Integration in Canada Chapter 8. Is There a Racial Divide? Immigrants of Visible Minority Background in Canada (Elisabeth Gidengil and Jason Roy) Chapter 9. Do Younger and Older Immigrants Adapt Differently to Canadian Politics? (Stephen E. White) Chapter 10. What Accounts for the Local Diversity Gap? Supply and Demand of Visible Minority Candidates in Ontario Municipal Politics (Karen Bird) Chapter 11. Who Represents Minorities? Question Period, Minority MPs, and Constituency Influence in the Canadian Parliament (Jerome H. Black) Conclusion (Antoine Bilodeau)