Migrant Integration in a Changing Europe: Immigrants, European Citizens, and Co-ethnics in Italy and Spain (Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development) - Hardcover

Book 10 of 22: Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development

Barbulescu, Roxana

 
9780268104375: Migrant Integration in a Changing Europe: Immigrants, European Citizens, and Co-ethnics in Italy and Spain (Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0268104379 ISBN 13: 9780268104375
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019

Synopsis

In this rich study, Roxana Barbulescu examines the transformation of state-led immigrant integration in two relatively new immigration countries in Western Europe: Italy and Spain. The book is comparative in approach and seeks to explain states' immigrant integration strategies across national, regional, and city-level decision and policy making. Barbulescu argues that states pursue no one-size-fits-all strategy for the integration of migrants, but rather simultaneously pursue multiple strategies that vary greatly for different groups. Two main integration strategies stand out. The first one targets non-European citizens and is assimilationist in character and based on interventionist principles according to which the government actively pursues the inclusion of migrants. The second strategy targets EU citizens and is a laissez-faire scenario where foreigners enjoy rights and live their entire lives in the host country without the state or the local authorities seeking their integration.

The empirical material in the book, dating from 1985 to 2015, includes systematic analyses of immigration laws, integration policies and guidelines, historical documents, original interviews with policy makers, and statistical analysis based on data from the European Labor Force Survey. While the book draws on evidence from Italy and Spain in an effort to bring these case studies to the core of fundamental debates on immigration and citizenship studies, its broader aim is to contribute to a better understanding of state interventionism in immigrant integration in contemporary Europe. The book will be a useful text for students and scholars of global immigration, integration, citizenship, European integration, and European society and culture.

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About the Author

Roxana Barbulescu is University Academic Fellow and 250 Great Minds Scholar in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds

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Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0268104379
ISBN 13 
9780268104375
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
304