On the Viability of State-Church Models: Muslim Burial and Mosque Building in France and the Netherlands

Breemer, Rosemarie van den; Maussen, Marcel

doi:10.1080/15562948.2012.693037

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“…Advocates in the United States foregrounded assimilation but they also stressed the “innocence” of children and their utility for the country (Nicholls, 2013). This reflected a national context that was much more concerned about border security (Inda, 2006; Inda & Dowling, 2013) and one with a much longer and stronger tradition of stigmatizing the “undeserving poor.” Thus, we suggest that increasingly similar “rules of the game” have precipitated similarities in generic strategies but continued national differences result in enduring variations in how these generic strategies are actually deployed (see also van den Breemer & Maussen, 2012).…”

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The Politics of Deservingness

Nicholls

Maussen

Mesquita³

2016

American Behavioral Scientist

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In the late 2000s, campaigns arose in the Netherlands and the United States advocating for the legal residency of immigrant youths with precarious legal status. In spite of differences between the campaigns, advocates argued that youths possessed certain cultural attributes and that these attributes made them deserving of permanent residency status. These two campaigns had very different histories, were made up of very different stakeholders, and drew upon different action repertoires to assert claims. Yet they both centered on immigrant youth, and they both stressed that the possession of specific cultural attributes made this subgroup uniquely deserving of exceptional consideration by the public and government authorities. The aim of this article is to highlight and explain similarities in discursive strategies across seemingly different national contexts. We suggest that the similarities in mobilizing strategies reflect responses to increasingly similar “rules of the game” in national citizenship regimes, whereby culture has become an increasingly effective lever in pressing the claims of certain subgroups of undocumented immigrants.

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confidence: 87%

The Politics of Deservingness

Nicholls

Maussen

Mesquita³

2016

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…Urban planning and the construction of mosques and cemeteries for religious minorities have attracted a great deal of attention (Maussen, 2007; Van den Breemer and Maussen, 2012; Zwilling, 2015). Burchardt et al (2015) and Griera and Burchardt (2016) have studied municipal burka prohibitions in Spanish municipalities.…”

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Conceptualising the role of cities in the governance of religious diversity in Europe

Martínez-Ariño

2017

Current Sociology

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The sociological literature has devoted less attention to cities than to nation-states as contexts for the regulation of religion and religious diversity in Europe. Drawing on ideas from the literature on migration, urban studies, geography and the sociology of religion, as well as empirical material from fieldwork conducted in three medium-size cities in France, the author conceptualises the governance of religious diversity in cities as complex assemblages where (1) the political interests and claims of various unequally socially positioned actors over (2) a number of domains and objects of the public expression of religiosity are (3) subjected to a variety of municipal interventions, which are (4) shaped by the interplay of supranational legal frameworks, national legislation, policies, institutional arrangements and local contextual factors. The result of these regulation processes are particular (and often contested) normative definitions of ‘accepted’ or ‘legitimate’ public expressions of religiosity, subsequently enacted by a variety of local actors through both formal procedures and informal practices.

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“…Nevertheless, in France, assimilationist aims are combined with a more inclusive civic notion of citizenship acquisition-something that has led scholars to define the French model as universalistic, rather than assimilationist (Koopmans et al 2005). Britain and the Netherlands, together with Belgium, still occupy a place quite close to the multicultural pole of the spectrum (Joppke 2009;Van den Breemer and Maussen 2012;Loobuyck and Jacobs 2009). Most Nordic countries are described as having open and tolerant models, despite recent changes aimed at combining immigrants' 'rights' with 'duties' by linking a successful integration process with obtaining welfare provisions (Hagelund 2002;Hagelund and Brochmann 2010).…”

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Is There a North–South Divide in Integration Outcomes? A Comparison of the Integration Outcomes of Immigrants in Southern and Northern Europe

Cebolla‐Boado

Finotelli²

2015

Eur J Population

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Integration models are often viewed as a necessary tool for framing integration policies, and for measuring integration efficiency. While ''old'' European immigration countries in Europe account for a systematic framework of integration policies embedded in a given integration philosophy, new immigration countries (particularly Italy, Greece, Portugal and Spain) have lacked a coherent set of integration policies and practices and, it goes without saying, a philosophical approach to integration. This vacuum has often been seen as a source of marginalization and 'differential exclusion', suggesting the existence of a North-South divide in integration matters, and more importantly, outcomes. However, there is still a striking lack of appropriate comparative empirical evidence backing or dismissing this divide. The objective of this article is to explore national-level differences in the real performance of immigrants in selected European countries of immigration along key indicators of integration outcomes, including school attainment and labor market participation. We here discuss the position of Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal as a coherent cluster of countries and compare the performance of their migrants with that of other foreign-born workers settled in the West of Europe. Our evidence provides little support for the idea that the Southern countries are a unique cluster and that they homogeneously lag behind in terms of integration outcomes.

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On the Viability of State-Church Models: Muslim Burial and Mosque Building in France and the Netherlands

Cited by 17 publications

References 5 publications

The Politics of Deservingness

The Politics of Deservingness

Conceptualising the role of cities in the governance of religious diversity in Europe

Is There a North–South Divide in Integration Outcomes? A Comparison of the Integration Outcomes of Immigrants in Southern and Northern Europe

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