Outsiders No More?

Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation

By: Jennifer Hochschild (Editor), Jacqueline Chattopadhyay (Editor), Claudine Gay (Editor), Michael Jones-Correa (Editor)

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Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to consider pathways by which immigrants may be incorporated into the political processes of western democracies. It builds on a rich tradition of studying immigrant incorporation, but each chapter innovates by moving beyond singular accounts of particular groups and locations toward a general causal model with the scope and breadth to apply across groups, places, and time.Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation addresses three key analytic questions: what, if anything, are the distinctive features of immigrants or immigrant groups? How broadly should one define and study politics? What are the initial premises for analyzing pathways toward incorporation; does one learn more by starting from an assumption of racialization and exclusion or from an assumption of engagement and inclusion? While all models engage with all three key analytic questions, chapters vary in their relative focus on one or another, and in the answers they provide. Most include graphical illustrations of the model, as well as extended examples applying the model to one or more immigrant populations. At a time when research on immigrant political incorporation is rapidly accumulating - and when immigrants are increasingly significant political actors in many democratic polities -- this volume makes a timely and valuable intervention by pushing researchers to articulate causal dynamics, provide clear definitions and measurable concepts, and develop testable hypotheses. Furthermore, the wide array of frameworks examining how immigrants become part of a polity or are shunted aside ensure that activists and analysts alike will find useful insights.By including historians, sociologists, and political scientists, by ranging across North America and Western Europe, by addressing successful and failed incorporative efforts, this handbook offers guides for anyone seeking to develop a dynamic, unified, and supple model of immigrant political incorporation.

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"This analytically incisive collection by a superb array of scholars provides an indispensable guide to one of the most fundamental social processes of our time. Anyone interested in the political inclusion of newcomers will profit from this state of the art volume."-Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University "Written by leading European and American scholars, Outsiders No More? provides the most up-to-date account of how the political incorporation of immigrants does and does not work across borders. A very timely contribution."-Patrick Weil, Professor, Centre d'Histoire Sociale du XXe siècle, Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne "How to explain the various routes to immigrant political incorporation? What does the study of immigrant political incorporation teach us about the nature and scope of politics? Top social and political scientists deal with these topical issues in this wonderful collective volume combining theoretical sophistication and empirical insights. Highly inspiring!"-Marco Martiniello, Director, Centre d'Etudes de l'Ethnicité et des Migrations (CEDEM) "In this volume, experts on immigration in North America and Europe examine the very pressing and complicated issue of immigrant political incorporation. It explores what exactly the concept of political incorporation means; illustrates how patterns of incorporation are fundamentally shaped by the social, economic, cultural, and political contexts in which immigration occurs; and provides frameworks that can be used to study political incorporation in various settings. For immigration scholars across disciplines, this book will become an indispensable resource."-Deborah J. Schildkraut, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Tufts University

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