Citizenship and Immigration: Multiculturalism, Assimilation, and Challenges to the Nation-State

Bloemraad, Irene; Korteweg, Anna C.; Yurdakul, Gökçe

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“…It highlights the tension between the mobility of persons, the interconnectedness of societies and the boundedness of states. Migrant cross border attachment and engagement challenge a state-bound definition of citizenship understood both as a legal status with political rights and as various forms of political participation (Blomraad et al 2008). This is In contrast, this article presents a case where there is a policy environment directly encouraging migrant transnationalism.…”

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Codevelopment and citizenship: the nexus between policies on local migrant incorporation and migrant transnational practices in Spain

Østergaard‐Nielsen¹

2011

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Over the last decade both national and local actors in Spain have picked up on international trends encouraging a policy framework of migration and development. Policies of codevelopment are tied in with issues of migration management in the sense of linking current and future migration flows with processes of development in the country of origin. However, this article demonstrates how codevelopment policies and initiatives of local governments in Catalonia also relate to migrants’ local process of incorporation in their country of residence. In so doing the article seeks to bridge and contribute to studies of migration and development as well as issues of national and local citizenship and migrant incorporation. Importantly, the article highlights the role of receiving country local governments in the nexus between migrant transnational practices and processes of incorporation

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Codevelopment and citizenship: the nexus between policies on local migrant incorporation and migrant transnational practices in Spain

Østergaard‐Nielsen¹

2011

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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“…Much like assimilation, the normative model of multiculturalism has also become increasingly under pressure (see Bloemraad, Korteweg, & Yurdakul, 2008, for an overview).…”

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Migration and Multiculturalism

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Staerklé²

2013

Oxford Handbooks Online

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"Multiculturalism has utterly failed", German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared inOctober 2010, "immigrants need to do more to integrate in German society". A few months later, in February 2011, British Prime Minister David Cameron also condemned his country's long-standing policy of multiculturalism as a failure, claiming that many young British Muslims were drawn to violent ideology because they found no strong collective identity in Britain. These two quotes from leading European politicians exemplify how migration and multiculturalism have become key issues in contemporary societies. Virtually all countries in the world need to deal with the steady flow of people crossing international borders that have made societies in our globalized world more and more diverse. Despite its contested nature as a normative model for organizing diversity in receiving societies, multiculturalism has become an inescapable reality to which countries need to adapt.This chapter is concerned with two major questions concerning migration and multiculturalism. First, it looks at the social and psychological processes at work in the migrant experience. Second, it deals with how members of receiving societies react to the increased and diversified immigrant presence in their societies. 1 Our review draws mainly upon research and theory in political and social psychology. Reflecting the diversity of classic and recent empirical work on migration and multiculturalism, we present research covering a Migration and multiculturalism 2 wide range of methodological approaches, including survey, experimental and qualitative studies. The chapter emphasizes how historical and political contexts affect the nature of intergroup relations between migrant groups and receiving societies. It furthermore highlights the role of widely shared social representations in processes of migration and multiculturalism, expressed in ideological belief systems, political discourse and everyday cultural repertoires. We argue that a political psychology perspective to migration and multiculturalism will gain from taking a interdisciplinary approach in which different levels of analysis-including individual, group and societal factors-are combined and articulated (Castles & Miller, 2009;Chryssochoou, 2004;Deaux, 2006;Verkuyten, 2005a).The chapter is organized in four parts. The first part outlines some historical benchmarks of modern migration and briefly presents two key notions of a psychological approach to migration-assimilation and multiculturalism-in their historical context. In a second part, we summarize empirical research that focuses on the psychological dynamics involved in the migrant experience, in particular the interactionist and complex nature of migrant identities, acculturation and adaptation in receiving societies, and intergroup approaches to acculturation and multiculturalism. The third part analyses the role of threat regarding immigrants and immigration in the reactions, attitudes and beliefs of majority populations in receiving societies. The...

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“…The social science perspective on citizenship goes beyond a legal standing and a set of rights and responsibilities: it includes active civic and political participation within a territory and a sense of social belonging (Bloemraad, Korteweg, and Yurdakul 2008;Isin and Turner 2007). Drawing on the post-World War II situation in the United Kingdom, T. H. Marshall (1950) proposed that citizenship involves civil, political, and social rights and obligations derived through legal status as well as an identity and assorted practices.…”

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Biopolitical Citizenship in the Immigration Adjudication Process

Lakhani

Timmermans²

2014

Social Problems

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Citizenship and Immigration: Multiculturalism, Assimilation, and Challenges to the Nation-State

Cited by 508 publications

References 117 publications

Codevelopment and citizenship: the nexus between policies on local migrant incorporation and migrant transnational practices in Spain

Codevelopment and citizenship: the nexus between policies on local migrant incorporation and migrant transnational practices in Spain

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Biopolitical Citizenship in the Immigration Adjudication Process

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