Favell, A orcid.org/0000-0001-5801-6847 (2022) Immigration, integration and citizenship: elements of a new political demography. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. ISSN 1369-183X
Abstract
A critical review of the state-of-the-art in migration studies. The paper centres on a contrast between established comparative scholarship – elaborating progressive models of immigration, integration and citizenship, that reflect the increasingly diverse, migrant-built societies of the North Atlantic West – and a new generation of work in the last decade, influenced by critical, anti-racist and decolonial theory, that rejects this ‘Eurocentric' liberal democratic global order and self-image. Establishing a bridge between older neo-Weberian approaches to immigration and sovereign nation-state building and newer (or revived) Marxist-Foucauldian accounts, it accents the state-power building effects of bordering, managing and cultivating ‘diverse' national populations, and its ongoing governmental categorisation of citizens and migrants, nationals and aliens, majorities and minorities, as a key feature of neoliberal ‘racial capitalism'. The argument develops in relation to wanted and unwanted migration in advanced liberal democratic economies, “visible” forms of immigration versus ‘middling' forms of everyday cross-border mobility, and the limits of humanitarian arguments for open borders and expansive asylum rights. The paper sketches an alternate politics to the self-legitimating ‘political demography' of liberal democracy, relating the ongoing colonial power of ideas of immigration, integration and citizenship, to the reproduction of massive global inequalities between ‘the West and the Rest’.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of an article published in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Immigration; integration; citizenship; demography; migration studies; governmentality; racial capitalism; decolonisation |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Jan 2022 16:09 |
Last Modified: | 06 Jul 2023 00:13 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/1369183X.2022.2020955 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:181901 |