Identity, Belonging and Migration

335 Pages·2008·0.886 MB·English

by  Gerard Delanty, Ruth Wodak, Paul Jones (eds.)

Identity, Belonging and Migration
STUDIES IN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT 17
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Identity, Belonging
and Migration
EDITED BY GERARD DELANTY,
RUTH WODAK AND PAUL JONES
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
List of Figures viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction: Migration, Discrimination and Belonging in Europe
Gerard Delanty, Paul Jones and Ruth Wodak 1
I. Theoretical Perspectives on Belonging
1.Belonging and European Identity
Bo Stråth 21
2.Identity, Belonging and Migration: Beyond Constructing ‘Others’
.
Paul Jones and Michał Krzyzanowski 38
3.‘Us’ and ‘Them’: Inclusion and Exclusion – Discrimination via
Discourse
Ruth Wodak 54
4.Dilemmas of Secularism: Europe, Religion and the Problem
of Pluralism
Gerard Delanty 78
II. Institutional Forms of Discrimination
5.Racism, Anti-Racism and the Western State
Alana Lentin 101
6.What Space for Migrant Voices in European Anti-Racism?
Çag˘la E. Aykaç 120
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7. Multiculturalization of Societies: The State and Human
Rights Issues
Irène Bellier 134
8. Towards a Theory of Structural Discrimination:
Cultural, Institutional and Interactional Mechanisms of the
‘European Dilemma’
Tom R. Burns 152
9. On Institutional and Agentic Discrimination:Migrants
and National Labour Markets
Helena Flam 173
10.Non-Place Identity: Britain’s Response to Migration in the
Age of Supermodernity
David Ian Hanauer 198
III. Cases of Belonging and Exclusion
11.Symbolic Violence
Helena Flam and Brigitte Beauzamy 221
12.Voices of Migrants: Solidarity and Resistance
Lena Sawyer (with Paul Jones) 241
13.Transformations of ‘Dutchness’: From Happy Multiculturalism
to the Crisis of Dutch Liberalism
Marc de Leeuw and Sonja van Wichelen 261
14.Competent vs. Incompetent Students: Polarization and
Social Closure in Madrid Schools
Luisa Martín Rojo 279
Conclusion: Discrimination as a Modern European Legacy
Masoud Kamali 301
Index 311
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Acknowledgements
The interview and focus group material –and some other primary material –
discussed in Chapters 8, 9, 11 and 12 is drawn from an EU 5th Framework
project entitled ‘The European Dilemma: Institutional Patterns and Politics
of “Racial” Discrimination’. We are very grateful to the participants in the
project and to colleagues working on the project for their willingness to
provide the contributors to this volume with this data.
List of Figures
2.1. Schematic representation of processes associated with belonging 45
3.1. Uses of the terms ‘illegal refugees’ or ‘illegal asylum-seekers’: total
frequencies per million words in British newspapers, 1995–2005 75
8.1. Institutional arrangements, cultural factors and mechanisms of
structural discrimination 155
9.1. Migrants’ positions in the labour market 178
9.2. Discriminatory factors in the workplace 182–83
Notes on Contributors
Çag˘la E. Aykac is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. Her current research focuses on
‘scandalous public figures of Islam’ in Europe, with other research interests
including public Islam in Europe, the negotiation process between Turkey
and the EU, and anti-discrimination practices from both EU institutional and
grassroots perspectives. She is co-editor and contributor to a forthcoming
book (IB Tauris Academic Series, 2008) on rethinking Europe through Islam.
Brigitte Beauzamy is a research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Centre for
Comparative Research in the Social Sciences, Paris. Her published research
addresses the role of creativity and direct action in the context of transnational
social movements, and the politics of gender and ethnic discriminations and
exclusions.
Irène Bellier is a researcher at the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific
Research), Paris.Her research interestsincludelanguage policyandidentity
in Europe, institutional analysis, and migration and belonging, and recent
published contributions to this area include the edited collection (with T.
Wilson) (2000) An Anthropology of the European Union: Building, Imagining
and Experiencing the New Europe(Berg Press).
Tom R. Burns is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Uppsala University. His
research spans a number of fields including power and institutions;
sustainable development; migration, structural discrimination and racism;
and socio-economic policy analysis. He has published widely in these areas.
Gerard Delanty is Professor of Sociology and Social & Political Thought,
University of Sussex. His recent publications include (with Chris Rumford)
Rethinking Europe: Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization
(Routledge, 2005). He has edited the Handbook of Contemporary Social Theory
(Routledge, 2006), Europe and Asia Beyond East and West(Routledge, 2006)
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and (with Krishan Kumar) the Handbook of Nations and Nationalism (Sage,
2006).
Marc de Leeuw is an affiliated researcher at the University of Humanistic
Studies (Utrecht). He is currently finishing a research project on the French
philosopher Paul Ricoeur. Besides this he is preparing a manuscript, together
with Sonja van Wichelen, on the changing notions of liberalism and tolerance
in contemporary Dutch society.
Helena Flam migrated from Poland to Sweden in 1969, where she gained
her Fil.Kand. She earned her PhD at Columbia University. She has been
Professor of Sociology at the University of Leipzig since 1993. Her texts focus
on organizations, social movements, East European states and emotions. She
is a co-initiator of the ESA’s Network on Emotions. Together with the Leipzig
research team she published Migranten in Deutschland: Statistiken – Fakten –
Diskurse(UVK, 2007).
DavidI.Hanaueremploys theoretical, qualitative and quantitative methods
in his research and focuses on authentic first- and second-language literacy
in different social settings. His research has investigated the multimodal
aspects of scientific communication and representation, genre-specific
aspects of poetry reading in L1 and L2, cognitive aspects of literary education,
fable reading, academic literacy across disciplines and migrant literacy. His
research has been published widely in applied linguistics journals. His most
recent book is Scientific Discourse: Multiliteracy in the Classroom.
Paul Jones is a Lecturer in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the
University of Liverpool. His research addresses the politicization of collective
identities, and has a particular focus on the relationship between states,
discourses of belonging, and major architectural projects. These issues are
taken up in his forthcoming book entitled The Sociology of Architecture:
Constructing Identities (Liverpool University Press).
Masoud Kamali is Professor of Ethnic Relations at Uppsala University. He
has recently led a major research project funded by the Swedish government
entitled Power, Integration, and Structural Discrimination and has published
widely in the areas of racism, anti-racism and structural discrimination, and
multiple modernities. His most recent book (2007) is Multiple Modernities:
The Case of Iran and Turkey(Liverpool University Press).
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