Date:
Location:
"Immigration, Integration and Citizenship: Elements of a New Political Demography"
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Speaker:
Adrian Favell, incoming director, Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork.
Discussants:
Philip Kasinitz, Presidential Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center.
Ali Meghji, Associate Professor in Social Inequalities, University of Cambridge.
Gökce Yurdakul, Georg Simmel Professor of Diversity and Social Conflict, Humbolt University, Berlin.
Contact:
inequalitycluster@wcfia.harvard.edu
Cosponsored by the Seminar on Social Exclsuion and Inclusion, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
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Attendance Information:
In-person attendance:
This event will be held in-person in CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262). Please sign up to attend in person:
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Virtual attendance:
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Abstract:
Is the progressive idea of integration maintaining global inequalities? In Europe and North America "integration" remains a pervasive concept in policy responses to the challenge of immigration and growing population diversity and inequalities. Focusing on the field of international migration studies, the book The Integration Nation: Immigration and Colonial Power in Liberal Democracies (Polity, Feb 2022) and the related article on a new "political demography" (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS), Jan 2022), deal with the insidious role of progressive ideas of “integration”. What kinds of alternative ‘disintegrative’ responses might be found in more contentious approaches to global population inequalities?
Participants are invited to read the JEMS paper prior to the event.
Bio:
Adrian Favell is Chair in Sociology and Social Theory at the University of Leeds, where he has directed the Bauman Institute. Starting in Oct 2022 he will be Professor of Social and Political Theory and founding director of the Radical Humanities Laboratory at University College Cork. He is the author of various works on migration, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, diversity and cities, including Philosophies of Integration: Immigration and the Idea of Citizenship in France and Britain (1998), Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe (2008). Most recently, he has led the UK ESRC project, Northern Exposure: Race, Nation and Disaffection in “Ordinary” Towns and Cities after Brexit.
