Rethinking integration: what we can learn from social psychology

Integration;Netherlands;Flanders;Assimilation;Multiculturalism;Interculturalism;Liberalism

Vander Most, Neil G

关键词: Integration;    Netherlands;    Flanders;    Assimilation;    Multiculturalism;    Interculturalism;    Liberalism;   

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美国|英语

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【 摘 要 】

The integration of vast numbers of migrants into European countries from North Africa and theMiddle East continues pose challenges for policy makers. The many differences between theseimmigrants and the native population can make assimilation difficult. In order to increase trust andsocial cohesion between citizens and migrant populations, various forms of multicultural andassimilatory policies have been enacted with mixed success. This study challenges the usefulnessof the current way people think about integration ideologies, namely as a choice betweenassimilation and multiculturalism. I hypothesize that we can better analyze public attitudes aboutintegration by conceptualizing integration as a continuum of possibilities arranged along a scaleof overall permissiveness. Using this continuum, we can entertain new and more effectiveideologies as policy options. My field research conducted surveys with native-born citizens in theNetherlands and Belgium to gather information about the appeal and usefulness of these newintegration ideologies. This paper finds evidence that the more moderate ideologies ofinterculturalism and “liberalism as identity” create stronger feelings of trust toward immigrantwhile minimizing in-group projection, overcoming the in-group projection problem. Furthermore,in Belgium, interculturalism is seen as more desirable to the respondents than the current moreextreme policies of multiculturalism and assimilation.