The notion of ‘immigrant integration’ is used everywhere - by
politicians, policy makers, journalists and researchers - as an
all-encompassing framework for rebuilding ‘unity from diversity’
after large-scale immigration. Promising a progressive middle way
between backward-looking ideas of assimilation and the alleged
fragmentation of multiculturalism, ‘integration’ has become the
default concept for states scrambling to deal with global refugee
management and the persistence of racial disadvantage.
Yet ‘integration’ is the continuance of a long-standing colonial
development paradigm. It is how majority-white liberal democracies
absorb and benefit from mass migration while maintaining a hierarchy
of race and nationality - and the global inequalities it sustains.
Immigrant integration sits at the heart of the neo-liberal racial
capitalism of recent decades, in which tight control of
nation-building and bordering selectively enables some citizens to
enjoy the mobilities of a globally integrating world, as other
populations are left behind and locked out.
Subjecting research and policy on immigrant integration to theoretical
scrutiny, _The Integration Nation_ offers a fundamental rethink of a
core concept in migration, ethnic and racial studies in the light of
the challenge posed by decolonial theory and movements.
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9781509549412
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2022
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Engelsk
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