Negotiating Identities: States and Immigrants in France and Germany

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Princeton University Press, 2002 M02 10 - 227 páginas

Immigration is even more hotly debated in Europe than in the United States. In this pivotal work of action and discourse analysis, Riva Kastoryano draws on extensive fieldwork--including interviews with politicians, immigrant leaders, and militants--to analyze interactions between states and immigrants in France and Germany. Making frequent comparisons to the United States, she delineates the role of states in constructing group identities and measures the impact of immigrant organization and mobilization on national identity.

Kastoryano argues that states contribute directly and indirectly to the elaboration of immigrants' identity, in part by articulating the grounds on which their groups are granted legitimacy. Conversely, immigrant organizations demanding recognition often redefine national identity by reinforcing or modifying traditional sentiments. They use culture--national references in Germany and religion in France--to negotiate new political identities in ways that alter state composition and lead the state to negotiate its identity as well.

Despite their different histories, Kastoryano finds that Germany, France, and the United States are converging in their policies toward immigration control and integration. All three have adopted similar tactics and made similar institutional adjustments in their efforts to reconcile differences while tending national integrity.

The author builds her observations into a model of ''negotiations of identities'' useful to a broad cross-section of social scientists and policy specialists. She extends her analysis to consider how the European Union and transnational networks affect identities still negotiated at the national level. The result is a forward-thinking book that illuminates immigration from a new angle.

 

Contenido

CHAPTER
15
The Battle of Numbers
22
Between Assimilation and Return
30
CHAPTER
38
The Search for Social Cohesion
46
Limits of Representation
53
CHAPTER THREE
59
CHAPTER FOUR
85
Forming a Community
106
The Recall of the Universal
112
CHAPTER SEVEN
140
CHAPTER EIGHT
164
CONCLUSION
181
Notes
187
Bibliography
201
Index
221

Islam Is Everywhere
92
CHAPTER FIVE
99

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Riva Kastoryano is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research and teaches at the Institute for Political Science, both in Paris. The author of several books in French, her work has focused on community formation and the construction of collective identities in different political settings.

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