Group Integration and Multiculturalism
Subtitle: Theory, Policy and Practice
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jul 28, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781137498410
Description: With immigration fulfilling the role of population maintenance and growth in many Western democracies, how should these countries incorporate newcomers? This book argues that states ought to promote group integration for communities that have settled through immigration. Pfeffer defines group integration as the process through which communities develop lobbies and institutions that represent the group's perspective, and help it to enter into dialogue with their receiving society. With examples from throughout Europe and North America, the justice-based argument suggests that states should facilitate group integration since it improves, among other things, the democratic participation of groups.
Notes: Source title: Group Integration and Multiculturalism: Theory, Policy and Practice (Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series)