Imagined societies : a critique of immigrant integration in Western Europe /

"In many countries in Western Europe, the demand for immigrant integration has inevitably raised questions about the "societies" into which immigrants are asked to integrate. Imagined Societies critically intervenes in debates on immigrant integration and multiculturalism in Western E...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Schinkel, Willem, 1976- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Subjects:	Social integration > Europe, Western. Europe, Western > Emigration and immigration. Immigrants > Cultural assimilation. Multiculturalism > Religious aspects. Emigration and immigration. Social integration. Europe, Western.

Table of Contents:

1. Immigrant integration imaginaries in Western Europe
2. Imagining society : social theory and/as social imagination
3. Measuring society: moral monitoring and the social science of "immigrant integration"
4. Transformations of racism : the rise of culturism
5. Traditionally modern : contemporary frameworks of sexuality and religion
6. The uses of citizenship
7. Social science : between moral monitoring and public sociology.