Outsiders No More?
Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation
Published on 15. August 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-19-931132-3 (ISBN)
Description
Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to consider pathways by which immigrants may be incorporated into the political processes of western democracies. It builds on a rich tradition of studying immigrant incorporation, but each chapter innovates by moving beyond singular accounts of particular groups and locations toward a general causal model with the scope and breadth to apply across groups, places, and time.
Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation addresses three key analytic questions: what, if anything, are the distinctive features of immigrants or immigrant groups? How broadly should one define and study politics? What are the initial premises for analyzing pathways toward incorporation; does one learn more by starting from an assumption of racialization and exclusion or from an assumption of engagement and inclusion? While all models engage with all three key analytic questions, chapters vary in their relative focus on one or another, and in the answers they provide. Most include graphical illustrations of the model, as well as extended examples applying the model to one or more immigrant populations.
At a time when research on immigrant political incorporation is rapidly accumulating - and 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. Furthermore, the wide array of frameworks examining how immigrants become part of a polity or are shunted aside ensure that activists and analysts alike will find useful insights.
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.
Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation addresses three key analytic questions: what, if anything, are the distinctive features of immigrants or immigrant groups? How broadly should one define and study politics? What are the initial premises for analyzing pathways toward incorporation; does one learn more by starting from an assumption of racialization and exclusion or from an assumption of engagement and inclusion? While all models engage with all three key analytic questions, chapters vary in their relative focus on one or another, and in the answers they provide. Most include graphical illustrations of the model, as well as extended examples applying the model to one or more immigrant populations.
At a time when research on immigrant political incorporation is rapidly accumulating - and 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. Furthermore, the wide array of frameworks examining how immigrants become part of a polity or are shunted aside ensure that activists and analysts alike will find useful insights.
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.
Reviews / Votes
essential and highly recommended readings for all those who study immigrant political integration. * Silvia Galandini, European Political Science *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
30 b&w line illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
562 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-931132-3 (9780199311323)
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Jennifer Hochschild | Jacqueline Chattopadhyay | Claudine Gay
Outsiders No More?
Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation
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08/2013
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Jennifer Hochschild | Jacqueline Chattopadhyay | Claudine Gay
Outsiders No More?
Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation
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07/2013
1st Edition
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
Table of Contents ; Authors' Biosketches ; Acknowledgements and Dedication ; Introduction, by the editors ; I. Are Immigrants Distinctive? ; 1. Incorporation versus Assimilation: The Need for Conceptual Differentiation, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan ; 2. Is Incorporation of Unauthorized Immigrants Possible? Inclusion and Contingency for Non-Status Migrants and Legal Immigrants, Maria Lorena Cook ; 3. Tracks of Immigrant Political Incorporation, Christian Joppke ; 4. Ideas and Institutions in Immigrant Political Incorporation, Robert C. Lieberman ; 5. Immigrant Political Incorporation: Beyond the Foreign-Born vs. Native-Born Distinction, Janelle Wong ; II. How Broad Is Politics In Immigrant Political Incorporation? ; 6. Dimensions of Immigrant Political Incorporation, John Mollenkopf ; 7. Culture, Context, and the Political Incorporation of Immigrant-origin Groups in Europe, Rafaela Dancygier ; 8. Structuring Immigrants' Civic-Political Incorporation into the Host Society, Ewa Morawska ; 9. The Importance of Demographic and Social Contexts in Determining Political Outcomes, Monica McDermott ; 10. Thru-ways, By-ways and Cul-de-sacs of Immigrant Political Incorporation, Michael Jones-Correa ; III. How Should One Approach the Topic of Incorporation? ; 11. <"The Great Concern of Government>": Public Policy as Material and Symbolic Resources, Irene Bloemraad ; 12. The Political Economy of Immigrant Incorporation into the Welfare State, Nolan McCarty ; 13. Continuity and Change in the Citizenship Laws of Europe: The Impact of Public Mobilization and the Far Right, Marc Morje Howard ; 14. Political Opportunity Structures and the Mobilization of Anti-Immigrant Actors: Modeling Effects on Immigrant Political Incorporation, Michael Minkenberg ; 15. Behavioral and Attitudinal Components of Immigrant Political Incorporation, Gary Segura ; 16. Assimilation and Political Attitude Tradeoffs, Rahsaan Maxwell ; 17. Moving Up and In: Two Dimensions of Immigrant Political Incorporation, Jennifer Hochschild ; 18. Acquiescence or Transformation? Divergent Paths of Political Incorporation in America, Gary Gerstle ; IV. Rethinking Immigrant Political Incorporation: What Have We Learned, and What Next? Xavier de Sousa Briggs