Thränhardt / Bommes National Paradigms of Migration Research

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-3-86234-093-4
Verlag: V&R unipress
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E-Book, Englisch, Band Band 013, 325 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 240 mm

Reihe: Schriften des Instituts für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien (IMIS).

The varying traditions in the migration research of different countries are closely connected to the respective national political landscape and the way in which the respective national state views itself - affirmative and positive or perhaps more self-critical. Seen side by side, much emerges to be discussed and challenged that was previously beyond doubt. The present volume introduces the reader to the traditions of migration research in twelve different countries: the more traditional immigration countries of Canada and Australia, four European countries with decades of experience (United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Netherlands), countries newer to immigration such as Italy, Poland and Japan, and finally the postcolonial countries of India, Malaysia and Nigeria. Through this comparative approach this volume presents a new approach to understanding the different research traditions. The reader is confronted with the various ways in which emigrants are included or excluded from society, thereby gaining an understanding of the existing intellectual discourses as well as learning to qualify them in the light of other solutions and traditions. Because the approaches of the respective migration research tradition are not always the same, the volume is attractive for a number of professionals: Sociologists, political scientists, ethnologists, economists, and philosophers can join together to discuss the terms migration, integration, and their relationship to social structures. This in turn challenges premises that previously were held to be a matter of course.

Prof. Dr. Dietrich Thränhardt lehrte an der Universität Münster Politikwissenschaft. 2008/09 war er Fellow an der Transatlantic Academy, Washington, mit dem Arbeitsgebiet Vergleichende Politik- und Migrationsforschung. Since 2008/09, Dr. Dietrich Thränhardt, Professor emeritus for Political Science at the University of Münster, Germany, is Senior Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington D.C.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thränhardt, Dietrich

Bommes, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;7
2;Preface;9
3;Introduction: National Paradigms of Migration Research;11
3.1;I. Nation States as Constitutive Frame for the Problem of International Migration;14
3.2;II. National Paradigms of Migration Research? The Relationship of Politics and Science in Migration Research;26
3.3;References;36
4;Part I: Immigration as a Part of National Identity: Two Traditional Immigration Countries;41
4.1;Canadian Multiculturalism as an Ethos, Policy and Conceptual Lens for Immigration Research;43
4.1.1;Abstract;43
4.1.2;Introduction: Canada as an Immigrant Society in Comparative Perspective;43
4.1.3;The Historic Roots of Canadian Nation Building and the Emergence of Multiculturalism;45
4.1.4;The Multiculturalist Turn of Modern Canadian Society;48
4.1.5;Framing the Research Questions on Migration: Towards a Canadian Paradigm?;52
4.1.6;Conclusions: Towards a Canadian Paradigm?;58
4.1.7;References;59
4.2;Aborigines, Anglos and Asians – Discourses on Multiculturalism and National Identity in Australian Migration Research;63
4.2.1;Abstract;63
4.2.2;Institutionalisation of Research on Immigration, Ethnic and Multicultural Studies;63
4.2.3;Consensus on Multiculturalism;67
4.2.4;Bringing Skin Colour Back In – Discourses on Race and Culture;72
4.2.5;On Race and Land – The Particular Relevance of Space in Australian Discourses on Migration and Multiculturalism;74
4.2.6;Summary;76
4.2.7;References;77
5;Part II: How to Integrate Migration into Old Nation State Narratives;81
5.1;How to Face Reality. Genres of Discourse within Durch Minorities Research;83
5.1.1;Abstract;83
5.1.2;Introduction;83
5.1.3;The Performative Power of Language;84
5.1.4;Genres of Discourse;85
5.1.5;New Realism;94
5.1.6;›Monstrous‹ Alliances;99
5.1.7;The Genre of Heterogeneity;102
5.1.8;Epilogue;105
5.1.9;References;107
5.2;Beyond the Race Relations Model: Old Patterns and New Trends in Britain;111
5.2.1;Abstract;111
5.2.2;British ›Race Relations‹ Research: Model or Disaster?;111
5.2.3;The Disciplinary Structure of British Research;112
5.2.4;The Race Paradigm: Brief Remarks on the Development of a Tradition;113
5.2.5;Current Trends;116
5.2.6;Conclusions;122
5.2.7;References;122
5.3;Migration Research in Germany: The Emergence of a Generalised Research Field in a Reluctant Immigration Country;129
5.3.1;Migration Research on Expellees, Refugees and Ethnic Germans: A Means to Cope with Irreversible Outcomes of the National Catastrophe;130
5.3.2;Migration Research on Labour Migration: The Emergence of Social Integration as the Main Research Paradigm in the German Sozialstaat;135
5.3.3;Migration Research after 1989: The Institutionalisation of General Migration Research in Germany;150
5.3.4;Conclusion;162
5.3.5;References;167
5.4;Migration Studies in Austria – Research at the Margins?;189
5.4.1;Abstract;189
5.4.2;Introduction;189
5.4.3;One Paradigm or Many?;190
5.4.4;Are Paradigms Contested or Widely Shared?;193
5.4.5;Are There Blind Spots in Migration Research?;196
5.4.6;The Institutional Framework;201
5.4.7;References;203
6;Part III: Emerging Research in New Migration Countries;207
6.1;Italy – Migration Research Coming of Age;209
6.1.1;Abstract;209
6.1.2;Introduction;209
6.1.3;Making Sense of Italian Exception. The Prevailing Macro- Structuralist Paradigm;211
6.1.4;From Emergency to Integration, to Security. The Framing of Immigration in the Italian Changing Political Agenda;214
6.1.5;Bringing Actors Back In? Competing Paradigms in Contemporary Migration Research;218
6.1.6;Italian Migration Studies Today. Gaps and Perspectives;226
6.1.7;References;228
6.2;Japan: A Non-Immigration Country Discusses Migration;235
6.2.1;Abstract;235
6.2.2;Japanese Exceptionalism;235
6.2.3;Japan’s Non-Immigration Policy;236
6.2.4;The Beginning: Entertainment and Undocumented Immigrants;239
6.2.5;Little Asylum in Japan;240
6.2.6;Intensity of Discussion;241
6.2.7;Programme 1: Ethnic Japanese;243
6.2.8;Programme 2: Trainees;244
6.2.9;Programme 3: Language Students;245
6.2.10;Research Paradigms and National Context;246
6.2.11;Cultural Approach;246
6.2.12;Human Rights Perspective;247
6.2.13;Focus on Local Municipalities, Communities, and NGOs;249
6.2.14;Desiderata;251
6.2.15;Conclusions;251
6.2.16;References;254
6.3;Migration Research in a Transformation Country: The Polish Case;261
6.3.1;Abstract;261
6.3.2;Open and Hidden Agendas;261
6.3.3;The Social and Political Perception of the Phenomenon of Emigration;262
6.3.4;Changes in Migratory Patterns into Poland after 1989;266
6.3.5;References;268
7;Part IV: New Nation States: Defining Nations and Their Migration Contexts;269
7.1;India and its Diaspora. Changing Research and Policy Paradigms;271
7.1.1;Abstract;271
7.1.2;Introduction;271
7.1.3;National Policy and Research Paradigms and the Indian Diaspora;273
7.1.4;Paradigms in Indian Diaspora Research;287
7.1.5;Internal Migration;295
7.1.6;Conclusions;296
7.1.7;References;297
7.2;The National Context of Migration Research in Malaysia. Which Nation, What State, Whose Migration?;303
7.2.1;Abstract;303
7.2.2;Introduction;303
7.2.3;Contemporary Labour Migration to Malaysia;305
7.2.4;The Ambiguity of the Illegal;307
7.2.5;The Unfinished State;310
7.2.6;Conclusion;313
7.2.7;References;314
7.3;A Paradigm for Nigerian Migration Research?;317
7.3.1;Abstract;317
7.3.2;Introduction: Wrong Questions, Likely Answers;317
7.3.3;Paradigms in Nigerian Research Discourse;318
7.3.4;Migration Policy in Nigeria: A Short Survey;320
7.3.5;Shaping and Agenda Setting in an Autocratic Democracy;321
7.3.6;A Basis for Research: The Nigerian University System;322
7.3.7;Conclusive Remarks: If there is none, do we need one?;323
7.3.8;References;324
7.4;The Authors;325

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Abstract


Introduction

Since the early 1980s, the Netherlands have pursued an active policy to further the integration of ethnic minority groups in Dutch society. Subsequent governments put scientific experts to work to investigate the history, socio-economic position and cultural background of different minority groups – investments which testified to a strong belief in social engineering and the ›makeability‹ of Dutch society. In this paper, I will discern four significant genres of discourse within Dutch minorities studies that use different rhetorical strategies to make their readers ›face reality‹.1 Among these are the genre of denunciation and the genre of empowerment.

But the dominant genre within Dutch minorities research has been the genre of the report. Until the early 1990s, most reports represented migrants as members of a particular minority group, i.e. as individuals who are socially and/or economically deprived because of their traditional culture. Emancipation was assumed to be the only way out, and Dutch government could help minorities achieve that aim. A decade ago, however, a new kind of report has come to the fore, in which cultures of minority groups are not so much perceived from the perspective of deprivation, but from the perspective of deviancy.

I will argue that this trend in Dutch minorities research shows a remarkable affinity with a fourth genre of discourse, that of new realism. Since the 1980s, against the assumed ›political correctness‹ of the genres of denunciation, empowerment and report, new realism has become ever more dominant in Dutch public and political debates on immigration and ethnic minorities."

Über Autor(innen)

Thränhardt, Dietrich
Prof. Dr. Dietrich Thränhardt lehrte an der Universität Münster Politikwissenschaft. 2008/09 war er Fellow an der Transatlantic Academy, Washington, mit dem Arbeitsgebiet Vergleichende Politik- und Migrationsforschung.Since 2008/09, Dr. Dietrich Thränhardt, Professor emeritus for Political Science at the University of Münster, Germany, is Senior Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington D.C.

Bommes, Michael
Dr. Michael Bommes is Professor for Sociology/Methodology of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Migration Research at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at University of Osnabrück, Germany.

Prof. Dr. Dietrich Thränhardt lehrte an der Universität Münster Politikwissenschaft. 2008/09 war er Fellow an der Transatlantic Academy, Washington, mit dem Arbeitsgebiet Vergleichende Politik- und Migrationsforschung.

Since 2008/09, Dr. Dietrich Thränhardt, Professor emeritus for Political Science at the University of Münster, Germany, is Senior Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington D.C.

Dr. Michael Bommes is Professor for Sociology/Methodology of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Migration Research at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at University of Osnabrück, Germany.