The Anatomy of Civic Integration

Kostakopoulou, Dora

doi:10.1057/9781137294005.0008

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“…The present article also seems to support this latter view. Second, scholars have also challenged the 'liberal-ness' of the civic integrationist 5 turn, suggesting that it still embodies a form of ethno-centric nation-politics aimed at drawing lines of inclusion/exclusion (Mouritsen 2006, Laegaard 2007, Kostakopoulou 2010, Jensen 2014, Larin 2015.…”

Section: Civic Integration Civility and The Civic-ethnic Dividementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the illuminating image of Mouritsen (2008: 6), it is 'thinness' that 'thickens', since a political principle (liberalism) becomes a cultural principle around which a national community defines itself. This nationalisation of liberal principles (Laegaard 2007) or culturalisation of politics (Mouritsen 2008, Kostakopoulou 2010) reveals for Zimmer (2003) the importance of moving beyond the ethnic/civic distinction. What matters for him is not the actual content of national discourses, but the ways in which this content is mobilized for purposes of inclusion/exclusion (see also Jensen 2014).…”

Section: Civic Integration Civility and The Civic-ethnic Dividementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The nation remains in place as a sociosymbolic register. Yet, it is indeed re-written in its civic form, as clearly illustrated in the two following quotes from the 2009 debate on nationality law: When analysed against the literature on the 'civic turn' and in particular the criticism related to it being a covert form of re-nationalization (Mouritsen 2006, Kostakopoulou 2010, Jensen 2014, Larin 2015, these two excerpts seem to suggest something else. What is indeed missing from them is the boundary mechanism (Zimmer 2003).…”

Section: Civility: a 'Leftist' Narrativementioning

confidence: 99%

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International migration and the rise of the ‘civil’ nation

Antonsich

2016

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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policies as a way to further scrutinize the 'civic turn'. Exploring how the term 'civility' and its adjectivizations are discursively deployed in Italian parliamentary debates on immigration and integration issues, the article points to two opposite narratives of nation. While one mobilizes civility in order to rewrite the nation in terms of a common, inclusive, civic 'we', the other uses civility to reaffirm the conflation between national identity and the identity of the ethno-cultural majority. These findings suggest the importance of exploring the 'civic turn' not only across countries, but also across political parties within the same country to capture the ways in which a liberal, civic convergence in political discourses might hide divergent national boundary mechanisms.

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Section: Civic Integration Civility and The Civic-ethnic Dividementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Civic Integration Civility and The Civic-ethnic Dividementioning

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Section: Civility: a 'Leftist' Narrativementioning

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International migration and the rise of the ‘civil’ nation

Antonsich

2016

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…Many researchers claim that in the last decade the conditions in the EU for the integration of migrants have proliferated and gradually have become more restrictive (Brubaker, 2001;Carrera, 2006;Carrera and Atger, 2011: 55;Dell'Olio, 2004;Goodman, 2010;Husband, 2007;Joppke, 2007;Kostakopoulou, 2010).…”

Section: A Paradigm Shift In the Integration Processmentioning

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Counterbalancing the integration policy for migrants through social work

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Moor

2014

International Social Work

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Migration problems are mainly reduced unilaterally to problems that migrants cause in the guest society regarding housing, employment, education and health care. At the same time migration research often focuses on the same reduction: the living conditions of migrants in our society and ghettoization, unemployment, the concentration of migrant children in so called 'sink' schools, unsuccessful integration and the sense of insecurity within the native community due to the presence of foreigners. Social workers proceed according to this evidence-based practice. Social workers are committed to the realization of a social policy that needs to accomplish an effective integration of migrants. In this article we question the evidence of the integration policy that is pursued. The reasons for this are multiple, but not least because the integration practices are often very counterproductive. I argue that migrant problems are not confined to the borders of our own community. A social policy of integration, addressed to migrants and other newcomers, which only depends on the conditions of our own society, must fail. Social work has increasingly been drawn into a role of punishment in its work with newcomers. This article looks to enlarge evidence-based practice to a reflexive collaboration with professionals in order to counterbalance the current rejection and submission of 'unsuccessful' migrants and newcomers.

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“…However, premised on these terms integration equates to assimilation and maintains a 'securitarisation' paradigm based on a dichotomy between 'insiders' and 'outsiders' (Velluti, 2013). Moreover, it remains based on a Westphalian conception of the state with clearly demarcated borders, the aim being one of conformity, discipline and migration control (Kostakopoulou, 2010). The 'civic integration' paradigm remains a crucial feature of a renewed nation-politics used by political elites to provide answers to a wide range of issues and to elicit support for a controlling state (Idem).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%