Is multiculturalism dead? Groups, governments and the 'real work of integration

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ID2146709
AuthorsAnna C Korteweg (0000-0002-7554-5852), Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos (0000-0002-8111-5891)
Year2015
Volume38
Issue5
Pages663-680
Publication date2015-04-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2014.907925
OpenAlexW2078020180
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited38

Understood as a philosophy counselling group rights and concomitant public policies undertaken by governments to preserve and enhance group identities, multiculturalism has little purchase in European immigrant integration debates. However, based on interviews with various actors engaged in policies that affect immigrants in the Netherlands and Germany, we argue that multiculturalism remains a going concern if it is understood as a problem-solving practice through which governments acknowledge and work with ethnic and religious groups to address issues of mutual concern, particularly on issues related to gender. We label this 'multicultural governance' and argue that it supports the principal ends of integration policy: the socialization of immigrants into prevailing national languages, norms and institutions

Corporate governance · Economics · Ethnic group · Immigration · Multiculturalism · Political economy · Political science · Public policy · Public relations · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Public Administration

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