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Introduction to the Special Issue: Debating Immigration in a Country of Emigration
2018
Reaching Out to the Europeans. Political Parties’ Facebook Strategies of Issue Ownership and the Second-Order Character of European Election Campaigns
2020
The European Election campaign 2019 enjoyed heightened attention in the European and global public due to the recent emergence of populist actors, new parties, and large European issues such as immigration, climate change, and Brexit. Starting theoretically from the issue ownership theory, shareworthiness, and the second-order character of European elections, the study at hand investigates the campaigns of 69 parties from 9 countries on Facebook as one of the current central spheres of electoral contest. Facebook enables parties to provide users with selected issues considered advantageous for themselves. The number of posts’ shares indicates whether the parties manage to reach out to the v…
Paradise Lost? The Collapse of Dutch Multiculturalism and the Birth of Islamophobic Post-Liberalism
2013
The aim of this chapter is to shed light on the integration debate in the Netherlands, and especially on the prominent role of Islam and cultural issues in this debate (Boomkens 2010: 307). Arguably more than in any other European country, anti-Islamic sentiment has produced political consequences, including the formation of three political parties on a principally anti-Islamic platform (Leefbar Nederland (Liveable Netherlands), List Pim Fortuyn and Partij voor de Vrijheid (Freedom Party)) since 2000 and the dismantling of key aspects of state-supported multiculturalism, including a cessation of ethnic monitoring of labour market participation, the withdrawal of national-level funding for m…
Imigrācijas politika un tās efektivitāte Latvijā
2018
Bakalaura darba tēma: „Imigrācijas politika un tās efektivitāte Latvijā”. Pētījuma objekts ir imigrācijas politika, priekšmets – imigrantu integrācija Latvijā. Pētījuma galvenie uzdevumi: 1) integrācijas procesu izvērtēšana saistībā ar Latvijas politiku; 2) integrācijas iespēju analīze; 3) galveno imigrācijas politikas struktūru un integrācijas attīstības izpēte; Pētījuma teorētisko bāzi veido citu autoru darbi par migrācijas jēdzienu, imigrācijas politiku un tendencēm Latvijā. Darba empīriskā daļa balstās uz esošo pētījumu izpēti, statistisko datu apkopošanu, normatīvo aktu un politikas dokumentu analīzi. Darba rezultāti saistīti ar imigrācijas politikas vērtējumu 8 integrācijas jomās: dar…
Imigrācija ASV 21.gs. un prezidentu ietekme uz to
2018
Bakalaura darba tēma ir “Imigrācija ASV 21. gadsimtā un prezidentu ietekme uz to”. Bakalaura darba mērķis – veikt imigrācijas izpēti ASV. Izpētīt imigrācijas, tās politikas vēsturi un prezidentu ietekmi uz to. Lai sasniegtu darba mērķi, tika izvirzīti sekojoši daba uzdevumi – analizēt akadēmisko literatūru par imigrāciju, tās politiku un vēsturi. Izmantojot dažādas pētījuma metodes, ievākt empīriskos datus un analizēt migrācijas politiku. Apskatīt kāda ir Amerikas Savienoto Valstu prezidentu ietekme uz imigrāciju 21. gadsimtā. Darbā ir izstrādāti secinājumi par to, kādu ietekmi ASV prezidenti atstāj uz ASV imigrāciju. Darbs sastāv no vairākām nodaļām. Pirmajā nodaļā tiek apskatīts, kā tiek …
What Drives Populist Styles? Analyzing Immigration and Labor Market News in 11 Countries
2019
The success of populist political actors in Western democracies and the dramatization and emotionality of political communication in news media have been the object of several theoretical and empirical studies in the past decade. It has been argued that the mediatization of politics and the convergence of populist and tabloid communication styles foster these developments by mutual promotion in mass communication. This article uses a cross-national quantitative content analysis to disentangle associations among news genres, populist actors, content, and style. In spite of indisputable prevalence of populist styles in tabloid style media, populist ideology is identified as their strongest s…
Pathways to higher education for first and second generation immigrants in France, Switzerland and Canada: how educational tracks and aspirations mat…
2014
Despite their different histories as countries of immigration, Switzerland, France and Canada all have a sizeable immigrant population, some of which do experience obstacles in their educational and professional careers. However, both access rates of immigrant students as well as institutional routes to higher education vary remarkably between the three countries. On the one hand, France and Switzerland offer both academic and vocational routes to higher education, whereas academic routes prevail in Canada. On the other hand, immigrant students are underrepresented in Swiss and French higher education, while they generally seem to be much more successful in Canada. In this paper we wish to …
The participation paradox: demand for and fear of immigrant participation
2019
In this paper, we address the ambivalence in European immigrant integration discourses toward the political participation of immigrants. We show how this ambivalence manifests in what we call a ‘participation paradox’, which is constituted by two apparently conflicting, but potentially mutually reinforcing characteristics of the discourse. The first emphasizes the need for immigrants to be active in order to attain a well-integrated society and well-functioning democratic polity; the second is a call for the protection of liberal democratic institutions from the alleged ‘illiberal threats’ that migrants pose to society. Immigrant participation is thus both demanded and feared. Using illustr…
Mafia and immigration: analysis of the “illegal street workers” in southern Italy
2014
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate on the new forms of the “illegal street workers” involving immigrants in southern Italy. This new concept may include, at least, two kinds of illegal employment of immigrants which is, probably, managed by local criminal organizations; in particular, it may refer to the so-called “posteggiatore abusivo” and “lavavetri”. Design/methodology/approach – This is a new area of research. The methodology used has been based on a collection of interviews with these migrants. Probably, this methodology should be refined, but in this first phase of research, it was helpful in order to understand the existence of a criminal network that controls an…
Citizenship: participation and exclusion in early modern Europe
2011
PurposeThe purpose of this article is to discuss the most recent results of the historiographical works on the subject “how to become a citizen” within the European continent in the early modern period (sixteenth‐nineteenth centuries).Design/methodology/approachThe idea that citizenship status could not mark the difference between natives and immigrants on a geographical basis, as natives were entitled to it at various stages as well, stands out from the presentation of some case studies (the Republic of Venice, the Papal State, the Reign of Naples, France, Spain and Britain).FindingsIn many contexts, citizenship was rather the political recognition of social and economic integration of som…