"A compelling argument for adopting the concept of ""mutual integration"" to overcome injustice and enhance social solidarity.
The public culture of the receiving society and the dominant understanding of belonging and political membership can influence the social participation of immigrants as much as immigration law. However, current discussions of integration focus primarily on the distribution of rights and neglect the role of tacit knowledge. Through a systematical and philosophical analysis of identity's role in policymaking, governance, and social practice, Bodi Wang shows how a one-sided understanding of integration resembles ""assimilation"" and why integration should be expected from locals as well. This argument weaves together extensive findings in sociology, history, critical race theory, and Chinese philosophy with ethics and migration studies."
By:
Bodi Wang
Imprint: Campus Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 213mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9783593517889
ISBN 10: 3593517884
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 26 June 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgements Introduction Integration Beyond Formal Equality One The (Im)Possibility of Integration The Assimilation-like Integration The Muhammad Cartoon Controversy and the Generalized Other The Problem of Moral Generalism Segregation and the Perpetual Foreigners When is Integration Possible? Two Identity-based Thinking Social Orders and Necessary Identity Apparent Necessity, (Un)Justifiable Necessity, and the Identity of “Immigrant” Identity-based Thinking and How It Excludes Three The Epistemology of Identity-based Thinking The Model of Assumed Objectivity Epistemic Irresponsibility Epistemic Injustice Four Knowing People Why Take Subjectivity into Consideration? Narrative Knowledge and the Concrete Other Ethics of Difference and the Moral Significance of Self-Cultivation Five Making Sense of “Strangers” Who are “Strangers” in Our Midst? Structural Injustice and Two Structures That Make “Strangers” “Not-Self”: The Self-Centered Model of Strangeness The “Stranger” and the Need for the Third Element Six History and Structural Transformation Alienation: the Interactional, the Structural and the Existential Why History? History as a Social Connection Model of Responsibility History as the Site of “Possibility” Structural Transformation Conclusion Integration as Integration of People
Bodi Wang is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Humanities, Social, and Political science at ETH Zurich.
