“Fear and anxiety over national identity: Contrasting North American and European experiences and public debates on immigrant and second generation integration.”

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
“Fear and anxiety over national identity: Contrasting North American and European experiences and public debates on immigrant and second generation integration.”

INED and The Russell Sage Foundation are organizing a meeting in New York on 9-10 December 2011 to explore transatlantic differences in the framing of “integration issues.” The last decade has seen a spectacular rise in concerns about national identity in much of Western Europe. In European countries with a tradition of multiculturalism, a nationalistic backlash has followed sensational murders and public debates on Islam and the integration of the second generation ...

Migrants and Political Life in Greece: Between Political Patronage and the Search for Inclusion

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

In a recent article with title  Migrants and Political Life in Greece: Between Political Patronage and the Search for Inclusion published in South European Society and Politics, Ruby Gropas and Anna Triandafyllidou find that co ethnic immigrants in Greece have been integrated in the clientelistic structures of the Greek political system, while «other» immigrants (of non Greek descent) have been kept at the fringes of Greek political life. This article reviews the discourses and ...