The Language of Inclusion and Exclusion in
Immigration and Integration
This collection provides an overview of some of the most relevant concepts in the study of the language of inclusion and exclusion, specifically with a view to the functioning of nation-state categories. Categorizations, words, and phrases are constantly renewed with the intention to exclude (mostly) or to include (rarely), promulgating problematizations that highlight discursive distinctions between in-groups and out-groups. Such discursive constructions and the practices through which they are effectuated are sites of symbolic power, and their study reveals the workings of power. Historical analysis of the language of inclusion and exclusion can help elucidate contemporary transformations of discursive power.
The chapters in this volume discuss forms of discursive problematization such as defining, claiming, legitimizing, expanding, sensationalization and suggestion, and it connects these to the discursive drawing of boundaries, focusing on discursive constructions of illegality, race, class, gender, immigrant integration and transnationalism. As state categorizations continuously differ, both the historical analysis of their genesis, functioning and transformation, and the contemporary analysis of their practical effectuation are crucial to an understanding of inclusion and exclusion.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Marlou Schrover is Professor of Migration History and Social Differences at Leiden University, The Netherlands. She has recently completed a large project on gender and migration.
Willem Schinkel is Professor of Social Theory at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands and is a member of The Young Academy of the Royal Dutch Society for Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He heads an ERC-funded research team investigating practices of monitoring and social imagination in the fields of immigration, immigrant integration, the monitoring of capital flows and the monitoring of climate change.
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Series editors: Martin Bulmer, University of Surrey, UK, and John Solomos, City University London, UK
The journal Ethnic and Racial Studies was founded in 1978 by John Stone to provide an international forum for high quality research on race, ethnicity, nationalism and ethnic conflict. At the time the study of race and ethnicity was still a relatively marginal sub-field of sociology, anthropology and political science. In the intervening period the journal has provided a space for the discussion of core theoretical issues, key developments and trends, and for the dissemination of the latest empirical research.
It is now the leading journal in its field and has helped to shape the development of scholarly research agendas. Ethnic and Racial Studies attracts submissions from scholars in a diverse range of countries, fields of scholarship and crosses disciplinary boundaries. It has moved from being a quarterly to being published monthly and it is now available in both printed and electronic form.
The Ethnic and Racial Studies book series contains a wide range of the journals special issues. These special issues are an important contribution to the work of the journal, where leading social science academics bring together articles on specific themes and issues that are linked to the broad intellectual concerns of Ethnic and Racial Studies. The series editors work closely with the guest editors of the special issues to ensure that they meet the highest quality standards possible. Through publishing these special issues as a series of books, we hope to allow a wider audience of both scholars and students from across the social science disciplines to engage with the work of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Titles in the series include:
The Transnational Political Participation of Immigrants
Edited by Jean-Michel Lafleur and Marco Martiniello
Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism
Edited by Steven Vertovec
Migrant Politics and Mobilisation
Exclusion, Engagements, Incorporation
Edited by Davide Per and John Solomos
New Racial Missions of Policing
International Perspectives on Evolving Law-Enforcement Politics
Edited by Paul Amar
Young People, Ethnicity and Social Capital
Edited by Tracey Reynolds
Cosmopolitan Sociability
Edited by Tsypylma Darieva, Nina Glick Schiller and Sandra Gruner-Domic
Retheorizing Race and Whiteness in the 21st Century
Edited by Charles A. Gallagher and France Winddance Twine
Theorising Integration and Assimilation
Edited by Jens Schneider and Maurice Crul
Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Asia
Inclusion or Exclusion?
Edited by Michelle Ann Miller
Diasporas, Cultures and Identities
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Gender, Race and Religion
Intersections and Challenges
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Latino Identity in Contemporary America
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Migration
Policies, Practices, Activism
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Nationalism and National Identities
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Methods and Contexts in the Study of Muslim Minorities
Visible and Invisible Muslims
Edited by Nadia Jeldtoft and Jrgen S. Nielsen
Irregular Migrants
Policy, Politics, Motives and Everyday Lives
Edited by Alice Bloch and Milena Chimienti
Fighting Discrimination in Europe
The Case for a Race-Conscious Approach
Edited by Mathias Mschel, Costanza Hermanin and Michele Grigolo
Responses to Stigmatization in Comparative Perspective
Edited by Michele Lamont and Nissim Mizrachi
Health Care and Immigration
Understanding the Connections
Edited by Patricia Fernandez-Kelly and Alejandro Portes
Gender, Migration and the Media
Edited by Myria Georgiou
Accounting for Ethnic and Racial Diversity
The Challenge of Enumeration
Edited by Patrick Simon and Victor Pich
Methodologies on the Move
The Transnational Turn in Empirical Migration Research
Edited by Anna Amelina, Thomas Faist and Devrimsel D. Nergiz
Racialization and Religion
Race, Culture and Difference in the Study of Antisemitism and Islamophobia
Edited by Nasar Meer
Race and Ethnicity in Secret and Exclusive Social Orders
Blood and Shadow
Edited by Matthew W. Hughey
The Language of Inclusion and Exclusion in Immigration and Integration
Edited by Marlou Schrover and Willem Schinkel
Mothering, Mixed Families and Racialised Boundaries
Edited by Ravinder Barn and Vicki Harman