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384 pp.
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ISBN-13:
9780199311323

Publication date:
August 2013

Imprint: OUP US

Outsiders No More?

Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation

Edited by Jennifer Hochschild, Jacqueline Chattopadhyay, Claudine Gay and Michael Jones-Correa

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.

Readership : Suitable for students and scholars of International Relations.

Authors' Biosketches
Acknowledgements and Dedication
Introduction, by the editors
I. Are Immigrants Distinctive?
1. S. Karthick Ramakrishnan: Incorporation versus Assimilation: The Need for Conceptual Differentiation
2. Maria Lorena Cook: Is Incorporation of Unauthorized Immigrants Possible? Inclusion and Contingency for Non-Status Migrants and Legal Immigrants
3. Christian Joppke: Tracks of Immigrant Political Incorporation
4. Robert C. Lieberman: Ideas and Institutions in Immigrant Political Incorporation
5. Janelle Wong: Immigrant Political Incorporation: Beyond the Foreign-Born vs. Native-Born Distinction
II. How Broad Is Politics In Immigrant Political Incorporation?
6. John Mollenkopf: Dimensions of Immigrant Political Incorporation
7. Rafaela Dancygier: Culture, Context, and the Political Incorporation of Immigrant-origin Groups in Europe
8. Ewa Morawska: Structuring Immigrants' Civic-Political Incorporation into the Host Society
9. Monica McDermott: The Importance of Demographic and Social Contexts in Determining Political Outcomes
10. Michael Jones-Correa: Thru-ways, By-ways and Cul-de-sacs of Immigrant Political Incorporation
III. How Should One Approach the Topic of Incorporation?
11. Irene Bloemraad: "The Great Concern of Government": Public Policy as Material and Symbolic Resources
12. Nolan McCarty: The Political Economy of Immigrant Incorporation into the Welfare State
13. Marc Morj Howard: Continuity and Change in the Citizenship Laws of Europe: The Impact of Public Mobilization and the Far Right
14. Michael Minkenberg: Political Opportunity Structures and the Mobilization of Anti-Immigrant Actors: Modeling Effects on Immigrant Political Incorporation
15. Gary Segura: Behavioral and Attitudinal Components of Immigrant Political Incorporation
16. Rahsaan Maxwell: Assimilation and Political Attitude Tradeoffs
17. Jennifer Hochschild: Moving Up and In: Two Dimensions of Immigrant Political Incorporation
18. Gary Gerstle: Acquiescence or Transformation? Divergent Paths of Political Incorporation in America
IV. Rethinking Immigrant Political Incorporation: What Have We Learned, and What Next?Xavier de Sousa Briggs:

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Jennifer L. Hochschild is Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University. Jacqueline Chattopadhyay is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Claudine Gay is Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University. Michael Jones-Correa is Professor of Government at Cornell University.

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Special Features

An indispensable guide for students and scholars alike, and will be of particular use to those studying this topic in the context of western democracies.
Offers a new framework and a clear definition of terms and their premises (immigrant, political, incorporation).