Imagined Societies
A Critique of Immigrant Integration in Western Europe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 24 January 2019
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Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781107573093 |
| ISBN10: | 1107573092 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 279 pages |
| Size: | 150x225x15 mm |
| Weight: | 420 g |
| Language: | English |
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Short description:
Imagined Societies analyses how discussions of immigrant integration, culture, religion, and sexuality promote notions of national societies.
Long description:
In many countries in Western Europe, the demand for immigrant integration has inevitably raised questions about the 'societies' into which immigrants are asked to integrate. Imagined Societies critically intervenes in debates on immigrant integration and multiculturalism in Western Europe. Schinkel argues that the term 'multiculturalism' is not used primarily to describe a type of policy or political philosophy in countries such as the Netherlands, France, Germany or Belgium, but rather as a rhetorical device that promotes demands for 'integration'. He analyses how such demands are ways of imagining the very idea of a 'host society' as 'modern', 'secular' and 'enlightened'. Starting from debates in social theory on social imaginaries, and drawing on public debates on citizenship, secularism and sexuality, and on the social science of measuring immigrant integration, this book presents a highly original study of immigrant integration that challenges our understanding of the concept of society.
'Willem Schinkel is one of the most interesting people writing on issues of identity, cultural difference and the policy responses (and exacerbations) that are making these issues so fraught in Europe today. His work on the moralization of citizenship and the implicit models of society in the discourse about immigrants is informed by wide knowledge and is very insightful.' Craig Calhoun, Director, London School of Economics and Political Science
'Willem Schinkel is one of the most interesting people writing on issues of identity, cultural difference and the policy responses (and exacerbations) that are making these issues so fraught in Europe today. His work on the moralization of citizenship and the implicit models of society in the discourse about immigrants is informed by wide knowledge and is very insightful.' Craig Calhoun, Director, London School of Economics and Political Science
Table of Contents:
1. Immigrant integration imaginaries in Western Europe; 2. Imagining society: social theory and/as social imagination; 3. Measuring society: moral monitoring and the social science of 'immigrant integration'; 4. Transformations of racism: the rise of culturism; 5. Traditionally modern: contemporary frameworks of sexuality and religion; 6. The uses of citizenship; 7. Social science: between moral monitoring and public sociology.
