Immigration and Integration Studies in Western Europe and the United States

The Road Less Traveled and a Path Ahead

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8042826
AutoresE Bleich (0000-0002-0887-7013, Middlebury College, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume60
Fascículo3
Páginas509-538
Data de publicação2008-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWorld Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0043-8871 • E-ISSN: 1086-3338
EditoraProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s0043887100009072
OpenAlexW2130636551
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas72

This article examines the significant contributions of recent research on immigration and integration in Europe and North America and highlights the potential of such research to influence the social sciences. The first part of the article advances a framework for analyzing four types of scholarship and then applies that framework to the study of immigration and integration. Type 1 scholarship develops theoretical or conceptual insights for scholars within a subfield, type 2 tests or refines theories that are specific to a particular dimension of the subfield, type 3 imports broader comparative or social scientific concepts to reshape the study of a topic within a subfield, and type 4 uses evidence from a subfield to develop theoretical tools that can be applied more broadly in the social sciences. The second part of the article reviews four books that highlight the empirical frontiers of immigration and integration research. Each book tends to epitomize one of the four types of scholarship, but together they demonstrate the possibility of making contributions on multiple registers. The article concludes by suggesting promising frontiers within the immigration and integration subfield and by defining the concept of a comparative politics of identity and sketching out its terrain. Since immigration and integration researchers are centrally interested in the role of identity in politics, they have the potential to be pivotal in advancing this new arena of inquiry

Conceptual framework · Dimension (graph theory · Economics · Epistemology · Identity (music · Immigration · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Regional science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Populism, Right-Wing Movements