The Integration Nation: Immigration and Colonial Power in Liberal Democracies

238 Pages·2022·7.985 MB·English

by  Adrian Favell

The Integration Nation
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The Integration Nation
Immigration and Colonial Power
in Liberal Democracies
Adrian Favell
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Contents
Thanks and Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
1 Integration as a Paradigm 7
Integration research as ‘normal science’ 8
Towards a new political demography 13
Integration and citizenship 20
Mobilities and diversity 24
2 Integration and Assimilation 33
Assimilation in US immigration research 35
Integration or assimilation? 40
The modernist development paradigm 48
Immigration/integration nations in the transatlantic
imperium 54
3 Integration and Multiculturalism 60
Integration as the middle way 63
The republican philosophy of integration 69
Models of integration 73
Muscular liberalism and after 80
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Contents
4 Integration and Race 89
Integration and desegregation 91
Technologies of integration 98
Integration as the production of race/ethnicity 101
The black box of whiteness 111
5 Integration and Transnationalism 122
Transnationalism and integration 125
Migration and development 137
Bordering 143
Citizenship, the birthright lottery and global inequalities 153
6 Integration and Decolonization 159
Coloniality and decolonization 161
Open borders: towards de-nationalization and
decolonization? 163
Urban and local de-nationalization 173
Global and planetary integration: COVID-19 and after 180
References 185
Index 212
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Thanks and Acknowledgements
I am very grateful to Polity Press, particularly my editor Jonathan
Skerrett, for the invitation to write this book, returning me to
my core interest in immigrant integration and nationalism in the
light of the new waves of critical and activist work on migration
in recent years. It has been an exemplary editorial and production
experience.
As always, it is impossible to thank everyone who has helped
me think through and articulate these ideas, but I owe a special
word of gratitude to friends and colleagues at the University
of Leeds, particularly Bobby Sayyid and Ipek Demir for their
attentive and encouraging reading of the manuscript; to Tesfalem
Yemane and Kheira Arrouche for the brilliant work they are
doing; to Li Sun for our work on China; and to members of the
Leeds Migration Research Network, the Bauman Institute and the
Northern Exposure project, especially Roxana Barbulescu, Albert
Varela, Andrew Wallace, Paul Bagguley and Yasmin Hussain. I am
grateful always for my precious connection to the Centre d’études
européennes et de politique comparée at Sciences Po, Paris, and its
fabulous équipe. Final work on the manuscript was completed as
a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2021–2022.
Thanks are also due to many other scholars along the way,
in particular in the writing of this book: to Bridget Anderson,
Christina Barwick, Michaela Benson, Elizabeth Bernstein,
Gurminder Bhambra, Hassan Bousetta, Rogers Brubaker, Claire
Colomb, Maurice Crul, Juan Díez Medrano, Thomas Faist,
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