National majorities and their governments often demand that
immigrants and other minorities must be "good": they should work
hard, contribute to society, and adapt to dominant cultural norms.
Such stereotypical labels for national outsiders, ranging from
"good immigrants" to "good Muslims" and "model minorities", imply
that their inclusion and recognition becomes conditional on
fulfilling certain standards of behaviour and identity that are
predetermined by the national majority. The affected minorities
respond in diverse ways, at times striving to be recognised as
"good" and at times rejecting these regimes of conditional
inclusion and citizenship openly. This book offers ground-breaking
insights on how these dynamics of conditional inclusion and "good"
citizenship play out today, with a focus on migrant and
immigrant-origin minorities in Europe and the Americas. This book
shows that conditional inclusion is a globally widespread tool for
controlling and rank-ordering minorities. As immigrants respond
through diverse struggles for inclusion and recognition, these
struggles reveal a hidden battleground of citizenship on which
minorities negotiate who can be included and accepted in a given
state or society. Their experience shows that conditionality is not
an outlier of citizenship, but rather one of its universal core
principles. This book was originally published as a special issue
of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
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