Ethnic Minority Migrants in Britain and France - Integration Trade-Offs

Analyzes migrants' labor market and political integration outcomes. It argues that assimilation trade-offs shape access to economic and political resources.

List of contents

1. The argument; 2. The history of migration to Britain and France; 3. Social and economic integration trade-offs in Britain; 4. Social and economic trade-offs in France; 5. Political representation; 6. Community organization and political influence: the London borough of Brent; 7. Community organization and political influence: the Paris suburb Sarcelles; 8. An extension of the argument: The Netherlands and the United States.

About the author

Rahsaan Maxwell is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His work has previously appeared in Political Behavior, the International Migration Review, West European Politics, Ethnic and Racial Studies, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and the Dubois Review. He has edited volumes and written commission reports for think tanks and foundations in the United States and Europe. He has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Transatlantic Academy and the French Embassy in the United States.

Summary

This book analyzes migrants' labor market and political integration outcomes. It offers a unique perspective on why migrant groups have different integration outcomes and provides the first systematic way of understanding why assimilation outcomes do not always match economic and political outcomes.

Product details

• Authors: Rahsaan Maxwell, Rahsaan (University of Massachusetts Maxwell, Maxwell Rahsaan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2014
• EAN: 9781107638310
• ISBN: 978-1-107-63831-0
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, France, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Migration, immigration & emigration, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Comparative Politics, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples