Immigration And Integration In Europe

If politics is ultimately about our deepest fears and desires rather than about, say, tax policy or better health care, then what place is there for a Left whose raison d’être will always be tied to improving the economic fortunes of the least fortunate? One answer is to begin to outline an “economics of meaning,” where economic or class critiques are a means to channel anger, create meaning, and build solidarity rather than to implement better policy outcomes (although, of course, policy changes would be good on their own, for moral rather than necessarily electoral reasons). This requires changing standard conceptions of what elections are for and what it means to win.

Future. Il domani narrato dalle voci di oggi, an anthology published in Italy in 2019, comprises writing by 11 self-identified black Italian women. As the book’s title suggests, their work, mostly personal accounts of being black women in Italy, is forward-looking while grounded in contemporary realities: a tomorrow narrated by the voices of today. The essays also are steeped in Italian history and particularly a past that only recently has begun to be acknowledged: that of Italian empire and its African colonies. The book—the first literary anthology by black Italian women— is a political intervention, an act of resistance to the racism and anti-immigrant attitudes that have become alarmingly widespread in Italian society and politics.

There are more types of borders today than ever before in history. Borders of all kinds define every aspect of social life in the twenty-first century. From the biometric data that divides the smallest aspects of our bodies to the aerial drones that patrol the immense expanse of our domestic and international airspace, we are defined by borders. They can no longer simply be understood as the geographical divisions between nation-states. Today, their form and function has become too complex, too hybrid. What we need now is a theory of the border that can make sense of this hybridity across multiple domains of social life.

Rather than viewing borders as the result or outcome of pre-established social entities like states, Thomas Nail reinterprets social history from the perspective of the continual and constitutive movement of the borders that organize and divide society in the first place. Societies and states are the products of bordering, Nail argues, not the other way around. Applying his original movement-oriented theoretical framework "kinopolitics" to several major historical border regimes (fences, walls, cells, and checkpoints), Theory of the Border pioneers a new methodology of "critical limology," that provides fresh tools for the analysis of contemporary border politics.

(Español) Javier Fernández-Lasquetty incluye en este artículo principios liberales para una política de integración de los inmigrantes y analiza la actual situación de la inmigración y su evolución en España. Y lo hace con abundancia de datos, interesándose por sus aspectos más destacados: sus circunstancias legales, el impacto de la crisis económica sobre la inmigración y el acceso y utilización de los servicios públicos por los inmigrantes, además de exponer los retos actuales en la política de extranjería española.

(English) Javier Fernández-Lasquetty includes in this article classical-liberal principles for an immigration integrating policy and analyses the current situation of immigration and its evolution in Spain. And he does so with plenty of data, thinking about its more outstanding aspects: its legal circumstances, the impact of the economic crisis on immigration, and the access and use of public services by immigrants, on top of
discussing the current challenges of Spanish immigration policies.

Ce livre offre un portrait détaillé des journalistes français et américains en action, alors qu’ils débattent de la façon dont traiter et commenter l’un des sujets les plus importants de notre époque. En s’appuyant sur des interviews avec des journalistes de premier plan et sur les analyses d’un vaste échantillon d’informations tirées de la presse papier et de la télévision depuis les années 1970, Rodney Benson montre comment le débat sur l’immigration s’est progressivement focalisé sur les cadres spectaculaires et chargés d’émotion de l’humanitarisme et de l’ordre public.

Avec une préface de Érik Neveu.

My paper is focused on the way British newspapers covered Eastern European immigration into Britain from 2004 to 2007, a lapse of time involving the two waves of the fifth EU enlargement. 1 This enlargement resulted in a large influx of Eastern Europeans, considered by John Salt, a geographer at University College London, and Ian Fitzgerald, from Northumbria University, as the biggest influx in British history which surprised everybody, 2 contributing to the re-emergence of the immigration issue and its impact on British society. Articles covering the influx of Eastern Europeans and the related issues, published in three daily newspapers: the Telegraph, Daily Mail and the Mirror, 3 are qualitatively analyzed, using framing, a recognized tool in media studies. The intention is to study the link between media frames and public opinion in relation to the influx and its impact on people's attitudes about white European immigrants from Eastern Europe. This is carried out by comparing media representations to opinion polls dealing with the most important issues facing the country. I shall argue that daily newspapers' representations affected Britons' attitudes about the influx, thus creating a new 'other' in multicultural Britain.

This article examines the representation of home among members of the Lebanese diaspora in New York, Montreal and Paris. Lebanese immigrants view home as both a concrete reality that is achieved physically or in relation with others and a symbolic reference point that ...

Marco Mazzeschi gives a picture of the implementation of the Van der Elst ruling in various EU countires. The ruling established the right and conditions under which a EU company can provide services in other EU States using its own personnel

In the 1980s, another popular Neapolitan vocal music scene emerged that today thrives in a position of ambiguous alterity to the once-dominant “traditional” music industry that thrived in the decades before and after the turn of the 20th century. La canzone neomelodica, or neo-melodic song, is produced, distributed, performed and consumed in an alternative political economic culture, where the so-called formal, informal and illicit economies overlap. The neomelodica music scene constitutes an alternative music industry that encompasses a range of affective-aesthetic sensibilities and economic practices that cause friction with dominant attitudes in Naples regarding “Neapolitan culture” and dominant aesthetic and economic norms performed by the mainstream Italian music industry and its publics.

Whereas it is necessary for every state to have an immigrant policy that serves its economic and political interests, the current strongly anti-immigrant sentiments in Europe appear to be going against the long history of human migration. Diasporas exhibit two seemingly contradictory behaviours: they move away from and, at the same time, seek to remain in touch their homelands. Internet-based media seem especially suited to fulfill the diasporic desire to communicate as their structures are able to support communication within groups that are widely scattered across countries and continents. Integration is necessary for migrants to succeed socially and economically in their respective countries of settlement. However, this is difficult to achieve without simultaneously nurturing their attachment to the new country and recognising the significant resources they bring by virtue of their cosmopolitanism. Governments seem to be faced with the choice of succumbing to the emotionalism of isolationist groups or developing more intelligent policies to address both the cosmopolitanism of migrants and their integration into receiving societies.

Il "decreto Salvini" (o "decreto sicurezza") ha portato in primo piano, nel dibattito politico e nel discorso pubblico, il tema della residenza. Fortemente voluto dall'attuale Ministro dell'interno, il d.l. ha, tra i suoi diversi scopi, quello di impedire l'iscrizione anagrafica alle persone richiedenti protezione internazionale. L'iniziativa governativa, che solleva forti dubbi di illegittimità costituzionale, ha da subito suscitato diverse reazioni, intellettuali e politiche, ed è stato contestato a livello giurisdizionale. Il contributo, partendo dall'attuale dibattito sul diritto alla residenza, intende affrontare argomenti che hanno a che fare con i significati e le funzioni di questo istituto. Muovendo da una prospettiva socio-giuridica e socio-politica, mira a indagare il tema del riconoscimento dell'appartenenza comunale «tra forma e sostanza»: analizzando cioè, da un lato, i contenuti, gli obiettivi e le poste in gioco della registrazione anagrafica e delle posizioni giuridiche che ne costituiscono il presupposto e mettendo in luce, dall'altro, gli ostacoli, legali e amministrativi, che governi centrali e autorità locali pongono al diritto alla residenza.

The issuing of the "Salvini decree" (or "Security decree) has made residency a political and public issue. Strongly wanted by the current Ministry of the Interior, the decree among its various purposes, aims to prevent asylum seekers from the enrolment to municipal registry offices. The initiative of the government, which raises huge doubts about its constitutional legitimacy, has immediately caused several intellectual and political reactions, and has been criticised at a jurisdictional level. The article, starting from the current debate on the right to residency, aspires to deal with the meanings and functions of this legal institution. Moving from a socio-legal and socio-political perspective, it aims to investigate the topic of the recognition of municipal membership "between form and substance", by analysing, on the one hand, the contents, purposes, and stakes of municipal registration and legal positions that are prerequisites for it and bringing to light, on the other hand, the legal and administrative obstacles that central governments and local authorities are putting against the right to residency.

English summary: In Europe, immigrant-origin students underperform their native peers, even accounting for differences in family background. In some countries this disadvantage is severe, in others it is mild. This discrepancy leads to the question which institutions produce the most egalitarian outcomes. Empirical evidence suggests that the timing of entry in school and preschool, the existence of differentiated tracks, and the degree of residential segregation play a major role in shaping the learning opportunities of second-generation immigrants.

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Kurz gefasst: Schüler mit Migrationshintergrund erbringen in Europa durchweg schlechtere Leistungen als einheimische Schüler, selbst wenn man beim Vergleich den jeweiligen familiären Hintergrund berücksichtigt. Die Unterschiede variieren jedoch von Land zu Land. Welches Schulsystem bietet nun relativ das höchste Maß an Chancengleichheit? Eine empirische Untersuchung zeigt, dass das Einschulungsalter (Vorschule und Grundschule), die Existenz eines mehrgliedriges Schulsystem und das Maß räumlicher Segregation eine wichtige Rolle spielen für die Chancen von Migrantenkinder der zweiten Generation.

The German state permitted about one million refugees to enter Germany in 2015–2016, although many were subsequently denied refugee status. Germany adopted an ‘integration’ and ‘welcome’
politics, an important, if imperfect, model for a European refugee policy. The integration of refugees required the joint activity of state, of civil society, of the public sphere and of refugees themselves. Civil society initiated a vast amount of essential care work and solidarity with refugees pursued especially, but not only,
by women, yet civil society and refugees had no say in refugee policies. German refugee policy and practice raised many normative issues, producing an intense and vigorous national debate about them, in which philosophers and theorists were active. Among the questions debated were whether Germany had
accepted ‘too many’ refugees, the acceptability of the costs of the policy, the risks of harm to the least well off, the purported risks to safety, security and the social order and the purported threats to German culture. I first describe German state policies, practices
and civil society efforts and then turn to normative debates. I discuss the limits of the German discourse and suggest how it needs to be expanded.

TODAY THIS OUGHT TO BE MUCH UPDATED AND SHARPENED 0. Introduction; 1. Changes in Mass Displacements: Are Non-Citizens People?; 2. Criteria and Value-Orientations: A Possible Epistemologico-Political Alternative: 2.1. Epistemology: Images of People's Life, 2.2. Toward Politics: A Right to Citizenship as a Human Right; 3. Some Prospects for Civil Cohabitation

The presence of immigrants from Africa in France began after World War II to rebuild France. Begin in the 1940s, the number of immigrants continued to increase and most of them came from the Maghreb countries. The high number of non-EU immigrants triggered social problems in France which later developed into Islamophobia. Also in the economic area, the number of unemployed in France was increasing caused by low skilled Maghreb immigrants. The immigrant problem was noticed by France in the 1980s, when François Mitterrand was elected as the Socialist President who ruled France for the first time in two periods. This study was conducted using qualitative methods to describe the development of the migration policy of François Mitterrand's government. The socialist style of government tends to be moderate to immigrants, while the right government has firmer measures. The finding of this article shows that the migration policy during the reign of François Mitterrand is ineffective because the number of illegal immigrants living in France keeps increasing and the process of integration between the two parties was difficult

This paper addresses two issues. First, it assesses what the recognition of professional qualifications might look like, post-Brexit, between the UK and the EU. Second, and in light of this, the paper considers the current and future role of qualification recognition in the EU's external services trade and migration policies.

Civil War in Syria created a large scale humanitarian crisis causing a mass human migration up to seven million in total. The largest neighboring country-Turkey has the greatest number of Syrian refugees exceeding 2.7 million. In the expectation of a quick resolution for the conflict and sending the immigrants back, the host country has taken only palliative temporary actions. This study investigates the options that Turkey has for the immigration problem. Elaborating on integration techniques for immigrants, the paper suggests possible policies for implementation of social integration in the future decades. Based on strategic management principles, the author presents advantages and disadvantages of integration, maintenance of status quo, and prevention of immigration.

The title of the thesis in English: The Positive Impacts of Immigration in France

Szakdolgozatomban azt a bevándorlás pozitív hozományaiit igyekeztem bemutatni Franciaország példáján keresztül. Munkám első szakaszában végighaladtam a mai francia területekre irányuló bevándorlás történetén, megállapítva, hogy azok immár sok évszázados viszonylatban migrációs célpontnak minősülnek. A bevándorlás gazdasági vonatkozásai közül megemlítettem a magasabb munkaerőpiaci részvételüket, gazdasági aktivitásukat, valamint jelentőségüket mind a szakképzettséget igénylő, mind pedig az azt nem igénylő szegmensekben. A bevándorlók mindemellett hozzájárultak a társadalom elöregedésének mérsékléséhez, a sport és művészetek terén pedig a nemzeti idenntitás táplálásához is. A francia bevándorláspolitikai trendek elemzése után megállapítottam, hogy az országnak karakteresebb, és saját gazdasági igényeinek megfelelőbb, célirányosabb plitikát kellene alkalmaznia, hiszen az Európai Unión kívülről érkező migránsok társadalmi és gazdasági beágyazása jelenleg koránt sem problémamentes.

Tramountanis, A., 2015, “Women and young muslim immigrant entrepreneurs in Greece: Survey results in Athens area” in Tsiganou, J., Balourdos, D., (eds) “Combating Discrimination in the Field of Entrepreneurship: Women and Young Roma and Muslim Immigrants”, Papazisis, Athens, (pp 101-129)

L’idea di un museo diffuso sul territorio (o ecomuseo) sul tema dell’interculturalità nasce dall’esigenza di trasformare la realtà sociale connessa ai fenomeni migratori all’interno di uno specifico contesto ambientale, trasformando in elementi di forza funzionali allo sviluppo locale quelli che finora sono risultati essere invece elementi di debolezza e portatori di diverse e complesse problematiche sociali. In un territorio come quello qui considerato, particolarmente ricco di espressioni culturali diversificate, offrire ai cittadini l’opportunità di conoscere la bellezza di tale varietà di culture può infatti divenire una risorsa rilevante per lo sviluppo e la promozione della salute delle comunità presenti. Elementi fondamentali per il benessere collettivo, quali l’inclusività, la resilienza, la partecipazione e la giustizia sociale, vanno quindi promossi e incentivati e l’ideazione di uno spazio conoscitivo delle culture diffuso sul territorio diviene, così, strumento utile a tali scopi.

"The Criminalization of Immigration: Contexts and Consequences explores these competing narratives and the consequences of criminalizing immigration in the United States and abroad. It examines the impact of national, state, and local legislation on the psychosocial well being of immigrants. The book explores key ways in which immigration is criminalized, and examines how the problematization of immigration becomes a political tool. The first chapters of the book explore the criminalization of immigration through the lens of pacification and the theater of cruelty. In both chapters, the authors seek to understand the process of “othering” members of the immigrant population to exact social control and to mollify the public. These front chapters set the tone for remainder of the book. They provide the impetus for why states have enacted, or have attempted to enact state level immigration laws that make it nearly impossible for the undocumented to live within the boundaries of these states. In section two, three U.S. states are highlighted: Arizona, Alabama, and Indiana. While the chapters on Arizona and Alabama summarize key aspects of state laws, author Sujey Vega highlights the life of one undocumented immigrant as she navigates life in the Heartland.

The book then turns its focus to the criminalization of immigration in a socio-political context. Here, four chapters provide explorations of the criminalization of immigration on labor standards enforcement, immigrant detention, the right wing perspective in the United States and in Europe, and white supremacy. Labor standards impact the rate by which undocumented immigrants are paid, which in turn impacts their health and safety within and outside the workplace, protections from workplace discrimination, and collective activity protections. The criminalization of immigration erodes many of the workplace and labor protections that we have come to view as essential. Similarly, the privatization of corrections has influenced the incarceration and detention of many undocumented immigrants and has even influenced the very laws described in section two of this book. If not for the possibility of profiting off of the detention of the undocumented, many of immigration related laws would not have come to fruition.

The next section of the book provides a transnational and international context to the criminalization of immigration. With chapters focusing on human rights violations, the transnational dimensions of Mexican migration, the making of the Maras, and the criminalization of immigration in the United Kingdom, these chapters ask the reader to examine the criminalization of immigration from a broader perspective. The reader learns how national issues become international and, likewise how international immigration issues influence national policy.

The final chapters of the book put the human face on the criminalization of immigration. Each chapter represents a case study of a specific aspect of the criminalization of immigration. They approach the issue from the viewpoint of a day laborer, an undocumented woman who has become a victim of domestic violence, a child whose parents are undocumented, and a detention officer who wrestles with his decisions to continue his job. Regardless of which chapters one reads, the raw emotion felt by placing oneself in each context is overwhelming.

Overall, The Criminalization of Immigration: Contexts and Consequences provides a complete examination of an issue that cuts through emotional value conflicts. It provides the facts and knowledge essential for a fair and balanced debate"

This study examines the changing literary discourse in German-speaking Switzerland as second generation immigrant authors write compelling narratives and are awarded prestigious literary prizes in Europe.

ISBN: 978-0-7734-1571-3 401pp 2011

In the last decade, as hip-hop has emerged as a political force among youth,regimes across the world have intervened to promote some sub-styles and sideline others, in an attempt to press-gang the genre to disparate political ends. In Venezuela, Hugo Chavez funds hip-hop schools around the country, and invites Bolivarian raperos onto his Sunday television show, “Aló, Presidente.” In the US, Michael Steele has tried to give the Republican Party a “hip-hop makeover” to bring its ideas to “urban-suburban hip-hop settings.” The US Army, in partnership with The Source magazine, has used hip-hop culture in its “Taking It to the Streets”campaign to recruit African-American youth.

Governments are also sending hip-hop culture to far-flung corners of the globe.  From its putative birthplace in the Bronx, hip-hop has traveled to become, at once, a means of protest and a tool of public diplomacy, counter-terrorism, democracy promotion and economic development. It is in the post-September 11 “war on terror” and in Western states’ dealings with Muslim-majority states and Muslims in Europe that government mobilization of hip-hop is most noticeable.  While European states are using the genre to integrate and“moderate” their Muslim populations, the US has made hip-hop part of its outreach to the Muslim world. The very music blamed for a range of social ills at home—violence,misogyny, consumerism, academic underperformance—is being deployed abroad in the hopes of making America safer and better liked. The officials behind the sundry hip-hop diplomacy initiatives invariably point to the success of jazz diplomacy during the Cold War as evidence of the “smart power” potential of music.

This article describes a five-week module on “Switzerland as a multi-ethnic society” intended to counteract the popular image of Switzerland as a homogenous country concerned mostly with tourism, chocolate, and watches. Instead, the module treats Switzerland through topics such as the definition of identity in a multi-ethnic society, the politics of immigration for a largely service-based economy, and the strains that migration puts on a modern society shaped by political will. The unit seeks to familiarize students with contemporary multi-ethnic Switzerland through a number of different texts (including film and music), compare the Swiss debates of migration and integration to those in the United States, and move students toward deep reflection on the larger issue concerning migration and national identity. The module is versatile in that it can be taught as part of a course on Switzerland, or of a broader course on migration in the German-speaking countries.

Making illegal residence unattractive is a way for Western governments to limit migration from non-Western countries. Focusing on Dutch neighbourhoods with substantial levels of unauthorised migrants, Illegal Residence and Public Safety in the Netherlands examines how restrictive immigration policy influences crime and perceived neighbourhood security. Salient questions arise. To what extent, and under which conditions, do illegal residence and illegal migration impact public safety? Does having illegal residence status influence how people observe or break the law and other social rules? Do their ties with established groups, such as legal migrants, employers and partners, have any sway? Answers to these questions begin surfacing in this rich combination of quantitative information, comprising police figures and surveys on victimisation, and qualitative sources, including interviews at a Dutch Immigration detention centre, and urban field research.