Challenging Immigration and Ethnic Relations Politics

Comparative European Perspectives

Edited by Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham

456 pages | line diagrams | 234x156mm

978-0-19-829561-7 | Paperback | 23 November 2000

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At a time when immigration and ethnic relations issues are hotly disputed across Europe, and challenged by minorities and xenophobes, the explicit aim of this collection is to present substantive cross-national contributions on this new quality of contentious politics. That European countries have dealt with the integration of minorities in different ways, often bound up in conceptions of nationhood and citizenship traditions, indicates that research will benefit from more systematic cross-national comparisons. Secondly, the new contentiousness of immigration and ethnic relations politics points to a need for more systematic linkages between policy analyses and the public conflicts that are mobilized by xenophobic, minority, and anti-racist movements. Thirdly, since the topics of the extreme right and ethnic minorities have been largely dealt with as distinct fields, a greater cross-thematic conceptualisation is necessary

The book divides into four parts. In the first, authors offer conceptual approaches to migration and ethnic relations politics drawing strongly on cross-national observations. Parts two and three are empirical analyses based on a method of systematic cross-national comparison. Whereas the institutionalised aspects of immigration and ethnic relations politics are the topic of part two, the third focuses more on the public contentious dimensions. Finally, in light of the important claims that nation-states are no longer the significant framework of reference for politics in a globalizing world, the contributions to part four address the emergence of the transnational level of political authority and its implications for national and sub-national politics, and challenges by social movements.

Readership: Scholars and students of political science, political philosophy, race and ethnicity studies, and legal theory.

Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham: Introduction
Part I: Conceptual Approaches
Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham: Migration and Ethnic Relations as a Field of Political Contention: An Opportunity Structure Approach
John Rex: Multiculturalism and Political Integration in European Cities
John Solos and Liza Schuster: Citizenship, Multiculturalism and the Politics of Identity: Contemporary Dilemmas and Policy Agendas
Part II: National Approaches to Migration and Ethnic Relations Politics
Han Entzinger: Models of Incorporation for Ethnic Minorities
Meindert Fennema: Legal Repression of Extreme-Right Parties and Racial Discrimination
Christian Joppke: Mobilisation of Culture and the Reform of Citizenship Law: Germany and the United States
Dietrich Thränhardt: Conflict, Consensus, and Policy Outcomes: Immigration and Integration in Germany and the Netherlands
Part III: Migrant and Xenophobic Challenges to Migration and Ethnic Relations Politics
Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham: Challenging the Liberal Nation-State? Postnationalism, Multiculturalism, and the Collective Claims-making of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities
Patrick Ireland: Reaping What They Sow: Institutions and Immigrant Political Participation in Western Europe
Romain Garbaye: Ethnic Minorities, Cities, and Institutions: A Comparison of the Modes of Management of Ethnic Diversity of a French and a British City
Roger Karapin: Major Anti-Minority Riots and National Legislative Campaigns Against Immigrants in Britain and Germany
Roger Eatwell: Ethnocentric Party Mobilisation in Europe: The Importance of the Three-dimensional Approach
Tore Björgo: Xenophobic Violence and Ethnic Conflict at the Local Level: Lessons from the Scandinavian Experience
Part IV: A Transnationalisation of Migration and Ethnic Relations Politics
Cathie Lloyd: Antiracist Responses to European Integration
Adrian Favell and Andrew Geddes: Immigration and European Integration: New Opportunities for Transnational Mobilisation?

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