Integration: twelve propositions after Schinkel

Comparative Migration Studies

Adrian Favell¹ 

[1] 0000 0004 1936 8403, grid.9909.9, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK;

关键词: Integration;    Assimilation;    Immigration;    Immigrants;    Methodological nationalism;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s40878-019-0125-7

来源: publisher

【 摘 要 】

By way of a commentary on Willem Schinkel’s ‘Against “immigrant integration”: For an end to neocolonial knowledge production’ in this volume, I propose twelve propositions in order to rethink the academic use of the concept “integration” in contemporary migration studies. The notion of “immigration integration” is deeply embedded in a methodological nationalism found throughout mainstream research and policy making on “immigration” that reproduces a colonial, nation-state centred vision of society sustained by global inequalities. The article broadly shares Schinkel’s arguments, while suggesting specific operationalisations which could advance a more autonomous social scientific understanding of how the categorisation of international migration and mobilities is used by nation-states to sustain particular orders and hierarchies of social power.

【 授权许可】

CC BY