Becoming Europe: Immigration, Integration, and the Welfare State - Softcover

Ireland, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822958457 ISBN 13: 9780822958451

Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004

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Across Europe, millions of immigrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers have often had difficulties fitting into their new societies. Most analysts have laid the blame on a clash of cultures. Becoming Europe provides evidence that institutions matter more than culture in determining the shape of ethnic relations.

Patrick Ireland argues that it is incorrect blithely to anticipate unavoidable conflict between Muslim immigrants and European host societies. Noting similarities in the structure of the welfare states in Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium—as well as in their respective North African and Turkish immigrant communities—he compares national- and city-level developments to show how approaches toward immigrant settlement have diverged widely and evolved over time.

Becoming Europe demonstrates how policymakers have worked hard to balance immigrants’ claims to distinct traditions with demands for equal treatment. Ultimately, it reveals a picture of people learning by doing in the day-to-day activities that shape how communities come together and break apart.

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Patrick Ireland , author of The Policy Challenge of Ethnic Diversity, teaches comparative politics and international relations at the University of Houston and the University of Saint Thomas in Houston.

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• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0822958457
• ISBN 13: 9780822958451
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274
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