067 Europe’s Diversity Regarding Immigrant Integration

Wednesday, July 8, 2015: 2:00 PM-3:45 PM
J102 (13 rue de l'Université)
This panel brings together research on various European countries, facilitating the comparison of government policies, public opinion, media coverage, and actual outcomes in terms of indicators of immigrant integration. Two single case studies of France provide in-depth understandings of how first- and second-generation immigrants integrate, or trace the roots of how integration policy has transformed to reflect the logic of neoliberalism. The three multi-country cases include countries such as Spain, Italy, the UK, Germany, and France. The first compares government policy and the distribution of governance authority across national, regional and local levels in Italy and Spain, while the second compares the motivations and integration outcomes of those who have recently emigrated from Spain to Germany and the UK. The final paper looks the relative frequency and tone of newspaper articles dealing with the cultural aspects of integration in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, political science and cultural studies, the panel asks a comprehensive cross-section of questions about what immigrant integration means across several European societies, exposing that there is still a good deal of variance throughout the continent.
Organizer:
Alexander Caviedes
Chair:
Alessio D'Angelo
Discussant :
Deborah Reed-Danahay
How Prominent Is the Integration Discourse in the Press? Results from a 5-Country Study
Alexander Caviedes, State University of New York, Fredonia
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