Outsiders No More Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation [Paperback]

Outsiders No More?brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to consider pathways by which immigrants may be incorporated into the political processes of western democracies. At a time when immigrants are increasingly significant political actors in many democratic polities, this volume makes a timely and valuable intervention by pushing researchers to articulate causal dynamics, provide clear definitions and measurable concepts, and develop testable hypotheses. By including historians, sociologists, and political scientists, by ranging across North America and Western Europe, by addressing successful and failed incorporative efforts, this handbook offers guides for anyone seeking to develop a dynamic, unified, and supple model of immigrant political incorporation.

Table of Contents

Authors' Biosketches
Acknowledgements and Dedication
Introduction, by the editors

I. Are Immigrants Distinctive?
1. Incorporation versus Assimilation: The Need for Conceptual Differentiation, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan
2. Is Incorporation of Unauthorized Immigrants Possible? Inclusion and Contingency for Non-Status Migrants and Legal Immigrants, Maria Lorena Cook
3. Tracks of Immigrant Political Incorporation, Christian Joppke
4. Ideas and Institutions in Immigrant Political Incorporation, Robert C. Lieberman
5. Immigrant Political Incorporation: Beyond the Foreign-Born vs. Native-Born Distinction, Janelle Wong

II. How Broad Is Politics In Immigrant Political Incorporation?
6. Dimensions of Immigrant Political Incorporation, John Mollenkopf
7. Culture, Context, and the Political Incorporation of Immigrant-origin Groups in Europe, Rafaela Dancygier
8. Structuring Immigrants' Civic-Political Incorporation into the Host Society, Ewa Morawska
9. The Importance of Demographic and Social Contexts in Determining Political Outcomes, Monica McDermott
10. Thru-ways, By-ways and Cul-de-sacs of Immigrant Politicall£&