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Why are migration policies sometimes heavily contested and high on
the political agenda? And why do they, at other moments and in
other countries, hardly lead to much public debate? The entrance
and settlement of migrants in Western Europe has prompted various
political reactions. In some countries anti-immigration parties
have gained substantial public support while in others migration
policies have been hardly controversial. The Politicisation of
Migration examines the differences between seven Western European
countries by developing a conceptual framework to empirically
explain patterns of politicisation and de-politicisation. The
analyses show that over the past decade immigration has been
increasingly defined in socio-cultural terms and that it has been
receiving less political attention since the economic crisis
started in 2007. This book also looks at the role of mainstream
parties and political actors in the process of politicisation, and
demonstrates how the role of 'challengers' is more limited than
often assumed. Contributing to literatures on migration, party
politics and agenda-setting, the book will be of interest to
students and scholars in the fields of politics and migration
studies.
Why are migration policies sometimes heavily contested and high on
the political agenda? And why do they, at other moments and in
other countries, hardly lead to much public debate? The entrance
and settlement of migrants in Western Europe has prompted various
political reactions. In some countries anti-immigration parties
have gained substantial public support while in others migration
policies have been hardly controversial. The Politicisation of
Migration examines the differences between seven Western European
countries by developing a conceptual framework to empirically
explain patterns of politicisation and de-politicisation. The
analyses show that over the past decade immigration has been
increasingly defined in socio-cultural terms and that it has been
receiving less political attention since the economic crisis
started in 2007. This book also looks at the role of mainstream
parties and political actors in the process of politicisation, and
demonstrates how the role of 'challengers' is more limited than
often assumed. Contributing to literatures on migration, party
politics and agenda-setting, the book will be of interest to
students and scholars in the fields of politics and migration
studies.
With the theory of secularization increasingly contested as a
plausible development at a global scale, this book focuses on the
changing significance of the religious element within a context of
complex diversity. This concept reflects the rationale behind the
deep transformations that have taken place in the dynamics of
social change, giving way to a recombination of social, political
and cultural cleavages that overlap and compete for legitimacy at a
national and supranational level. Far from disappearing with
modernization, new forms of religious diversity have emerged that
continue to demand specific policies from the state, putting
pressure on the established practices of religious governance while
creating a series of normative dilemmas. European societies have
been a testing ground for many of these changes, but for decades
Canada has been viewed as a pioneering country in the management of
diversity, thus offering some interesting similarities and
contrasts with the former. Accordingly, the book deals with the
diverging routes that political secularization has followed in
Europe and Canada, the patterns of religious governance that can be
recognized in each region, and the practices for accommodating the
demands of religious minorities concerning their legal regulation,
the management of public institutions, and the provision of social
services.
With the theory of secularization increasingly contested as a
plausible development at a global scale, this book focuses on the
changing significance of the religious element within a context of
complex diversity. This concept reflects the rationale behind the
deep transformations that have taken place in the dynamics of
social change, giving way to a recombination of social, political
and cultural cleavages that overlap and compete for legitimacy at a
national and supranational level. Far from disappearing with
modernization, new forms of religious diversity have emerged that
continue to demand specific policies from the state, putting
pressure on the established practices of religious governance while
creating a series of normative dilemmas. European societies have
been a testing ground for many of these changes, but for decades
Canada has been viewed as a pioneering country in the management of
diversity, thus offering some interesting similarities and
contrasts with the former. Accordingly, the book deals with the
diverging routes that political secularization has followed in
Europe and Canada, the patterns of religious governance that can be
recognized in each region, and the practices for accommodating the
demands of religious minorities concerning their legal regulation,
the management of public institutions, and the provision of social
services.
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Critical Mobilities (Hardcover)
Ola Soederstroem, Didier Ruedin, Shalini Randeria, Gianni D'Amato
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R2,032
Discovery Miles 20 320
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The field of mobility studies examines social phenomena through the
lens of movement. In this perspective, societies are regarded as
being constantly reconfigured as they are shaped by a series of
mobile entities (capital, people, information). This book engages
critically with many of the claims and challenges of mobility
studies by providing empirically rich reports of mobilities and
their limitations. Instead of assuming a seamless world of flows,
the volume foregrounds questions of power, inequality, and moorings
as integral to the movement of capital, goods, images, practices,
or people. It brings together the work of several internationally
renowned scholars, who engage with these movements at critical
sites. This is the first book to provide a critical and
interdisciplinary view of mobilities covering a broad range of
issues rather than a single domain. The chapters deal with current
and important issues, such as organ transplants, illegal
migrations, urban globalization, international policies of higher
education institutions, and scientific diasporas. As a whole, the
book provides new insights into how power relations shape
mobilities and societies.
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