| Kommentar |
As a result of immigration, we see increasing diversity in language, ethnicity, race, religion, class structure and culture in our societies today. Citizenship and immigrant incorporation, specifically assimilation and multiculturalism, are used as important analytical and policy tools to understand and respond to this diversity.
Using these two concepts as the cross-cutting analytical tools, we aim to critically discuss the racialized, ethnicized, class and gender-based hierarchies that emerge as a result of immigration in North America and Western Europe. We will question how citizenship is enacted through multiple identities, border-crossings and different levels of memberships in the process of globalization. We will also critically explore the tension between ethnic membership, national belonging and immigrant incorporation policies in North America and Western Europe by referring to current debates on multiculturalism, stable borders and democracy. Throughout the seminars, we will discuss the case of Germany as an immigrant receiving country and locate it in the global framework. |
| Literatur |
Bloemraad, Irene, Anna Korteweg and Gokce Yurdakul (2008) “Citizenship and Immigration: Assimilation, Multiculturalism and the Challenges to the Nation State” Annual Review of Sociology 34: 153-179. |
