Imagined Societies - A Critique of Immigrant Integration in Western Europe

Imagined Societies analyses how discussions of immigrant integration, culture, religion, and sexuality promote notions of national societies.

List 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.

About the author

Willem Schinkel is Professor of Social Theory at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. He is a member of The Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a well-known intellectual in the Dutch public sphere.

Summary

Imagined Societies explores how images of 'society' and of national belonging have been forged by the media and politicians through the portrayal of immigrants and their 'failed integration'. Examining the experience of the Netherlands and other Western European countries, this book analyses how discussions of integration, culture, religion, and sexuality promote notions of national societies.

Product details

• Authors: Willem Schinkel, Willem (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam) Schinkel, Schinkel Willem
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781107573093
• ISBN: 978-1-107-57309-3
• No. of pages: 279
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Political science & theory, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Western Europe, Political science and theory, Western Continental Europe, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples