Bringing Outsiders In Transatlantic Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation

• Main Authors: Hochschild, Jennifer L, Mollenkopf, John H
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2009
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Citizenship; Civics & Citizenship; Comparative analysis; Congresses; Emigration & Immigration; Emigration and immigration; Europe, Western; Immigrant assimilation; Immigrants; Local politics; Minority groups; North America; Political activity; Political aspects; Political integration; Political participation; POLITICAL SCIENCE; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Sociology; Transnationalism; Western Europe
• ISBN: 9780801448119; 0801448115; 0801475147; 9780801475146
• DOI: 10.7591/9780801461972

For immigrants, politics can play a significant role in determining whether and how they assimilate. InBringing Outsiders In, leading social scientists present individual cases and work toward a comparative synthesis of how immigrants affect-and are affected by-civic life on both sides of the Atlantic. Just as in the United States, large immigrant minority communities have been emerging across Europe. While these communities usually make up less than one-tenth of national populations, they typically have a large presence in urban areas, sometimes approaching a majority. That immigrants can have an even greater political salience than their population might suggest has been demonstrated in recent years in places as diverse as Sweden and France. Attending to how local and national states encourage or discourage political participation, the authors assess the relative involvement of immigrants in a wide range of settings. Jennifer Hochschild and John Mollenkopf provide a context for the particular cases and comparisons and draw a set of analytic and empirical conclusions regarding incorporation.