000			01636nam a2200193Ia 4500
999			_c9226 _d9226
020			_a9781107129733
082			_aRR 305.8 _bSCH-I
100			_aSchinkel, Willem
245			_aImagined societies _b: a critique of immigrant integration in Western Europe
260			_aCambridge _bCambridge University Press _c2017
300			_avii, 271p
504			_aincludes bibliography and index
520			_aIn many countries in Western Europe, the demand for immigrant integration has inevitably raised questions about the 'societies' into which immigrants are asked to integrate. Imagined Societies critically intervenes in debates on immigrant integration and multiculturalism in Western Europe. Schinkel argues that the term 'multiculturalism' is not used primarily to describe a type of policy or political philosophy in countries such as the Netherlands, France, Germany or Belgium, but rather as a rhetorical device that promotes demands for 'integration'. He analyses how such demands are ways of imagining the very idea of a 'host society' as 'modern', 'secular' and 'enlightened'. Starting from debates in social theory on social imaginaries, and drawing on public debates on citizenship, secularism and sexuality, and on the social science of measuring immigrant integration, this book presents a highly original study of immigrant integration that challenges our understanding of the concept of society.
650			_aSocial integration _zWestern Europe
650			_aWestern Europe _vEmigration and immigration
650			_aImmigrants _vCultural assimilation
650			_aMulticulturalism _vReligious aspects
942			_cRB _2ddc