Beyond national models: Civic integration policies for immigrants in Western Europe

Joppke, Christian

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“…Thus, the new 'civic integration' does not represent the willingness of European states to renounce their powers to 'mold' immigrants into 'nationals', but rather a shift in the source of legitimacy to do so, which is becoming less national and more liberal (Joppke, 2007). Under these new circumstances, the relations between receiving society's language and national identification become all the more interesting.…”

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Relations between Second-Language Proficiency and National Identification: The Case of Immigrants in Germany

Hochman

Davidov

2014

European Sociological Review

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This paper discusses and empirically tests the relations between language proficiency and national identification with Germany among first generation immigrants in Germany. It presents three theoretical arguments: (1) language proficiency positively affects national identification; and contrastingly (2) national identification positively influences language proficiency; and (3) there is a reciprocal relationship between both constructs. To test these potentially contradictory claims empirically, we utilize data on first generation immigrants in Germany measured in four waves (1997, 1999, 2001 and 2003) from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study. Language proficiency is operationalized with the variable proficiency in German language. Hypotheses are tested using autoregressive cross-lagged structural equation models. Findings demonstrate an effect of language proficiency on national identification among immigrants in Germany. However, data provide no support for an effect in the other direction.

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Relations between Second-Language Proficiency and National Identification: The Case of Immigrants in Germany

Hochman

Davidov

2014

European Sociological Review

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“…Many of the West Africans who are part of Marcel's network rely on reproducing traditional markers of African identity as they traverse through Europe. This contradicts a lot of the sociology and policy research on migrants in Europe that suggests that migrants assimilate 'European' norms and values in the process of integrating into European society Phalet & Swyngedow 2003;Ertzinger & Biezeveld 2003;Joppke 2007). I have found that highlighting African traditional practices -whether they are genuine or not -has proven to be an effective way for my informants to negotiate the different social fields they traverse through.…”

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Things in Culture, Culture in Things

Kannike¹,

Laviolette²

2013

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Aims & scopeThe Approaches to Culture Theory book series focuses on various aspects of analysis, modelling, and theoretical understanding of culture. Culture theory as a set of complementary theories is seen to include and combine the approaches of different sciences, among them semiotics of culture, archaeology, environmental history, ethnology, cultural ecology, cultural and social anthropology, human geography, sociology and the psychology of culture, folklore, media and communication studies. Series editorsKalevi Kull Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, University of Tartu Introduction. Storing and storying the serendipity of objects . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Patrick Laviolette Soft objectsThe natural order is decay: the home as an ephemeral art project . Notes on editors and contributorsMaria Cristache (Maria.Cristache@gcsc.uni-giessen.de) completed a Master's degree in sociology and social anthropology at the Central European University, Hungary. She is currently a doctoral student at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University, Giessen. Her research interests include material culture, post-socialism, sociology and the anthropology of consumption, including patterns of taste and consumption of domestic objects in communist and post-communist Romania.Carlo A. Cubero (carlo.cubero@gmail.com) is associate professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia. His research focuses on ethnographic filmmaking methodology, migration, transnationalism and post-colonial identities.Brigitte Glaser (Brigitte.Glaser@phil.uni-goettingen.de) is professor of English literature and cultural studies at the University of Göttingen, Germany. She has published two monographs, one on 18th-century fiction and the other on 17th-century autobiographical writing. During the last few years her research focus and publications have been on colonial and postcolonial literature as well as transnational writing. A co-edited volume of essays The Canadian Mosaic in the Age of Transnationalism appeared in 2010.Remo Gramigna (gramigna@ut.ee) is a doctoral student in semiotics at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He gained a Master's degree in science of communication at Rome's Sapienza University with a dissertation entitled Culture Jamming: Phenomenology of Creative Destruction (2006). He completed a second Master's degree in semiotics at the University of Tartu with a thesis entitled Augustine on Lying: A Semiotic Analysis (2011). His main research area is the semiotics of lying and deception.Visa Immonen (visa.immonen@helsinki.fi) is a fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, and adjunct professor of archaeology at the University of Turku, Finland. He is an archaeologist specialising in the Middle Ages and the Modern period. Meripeni Ngully (meripeni55@gmail.com) is associate professor at the Department of History, Dimapur Government College, India. She is a doctoral candida...

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“…Apart from this, changes in the Dutch welfare system, the killings of Pim Fortuyn in 2002 and Theo van Gogh in 2004, and the presence of anti-immigrant politicians, such as Geert Wilders, have contributed to the growth of a discourse with adverse connotations in relation to immigration and integration into Dutch society. Joppke (2007) argues that there is a clear growth of a repressive liberalism, in which The Netherlands has adapted the most brutal alternative to civic integration. Bonjour & Lettinga (2012, p. 271) argue that the electoral successes of anti-immigrant politicians has pressured the Left to revise its views on issues of immigrant integration.…”

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The Normality and Materiality of the Dominant Discourse: Voluntary Work Inside a Dutch Asylum Seeker Center

Larruina

Ghorashi

2016

Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies

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Beyond national models: Civic integration policies for immigrants in Western Europe

Cited by 618 publications

References 9 publications

Relations between Second-Language Proficiency and National Identification: The Case of Immigrants in Germany

Relations between Second-Language Proficiency and National Identification: The Case of Immigrants in Germany

Things in Culture, Culture in Things

The Normality and Materiality of the Dominant Discourse: Voluntary Work Inside a Dutch Asylum Seeker Center

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