The legacies of race and postcolonialism: Taking responsibility for migration
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Nasar Meer
Abstract
Migration has long been a feature of human societies, in all their variety, even while migration acquires a qualitatively novel status in modernity amidst the organisation of populations according to nation-states. This chapter, consistent with the overall aim of the volume, discusses refugee integration in a way that can shed significant light on the potential and the limits of individual responsibility. It argues that what is key to understanding contemporary debates in Europe is how matters of race and the postcolonial legacies cast a long shadow, and that refugee receiving societies need to take responsibility for these issues rather than ignore them.
Abstract
Migration has long been a feature of human societies, in all their variety, even while migration acquires a qualitatively novel status in modernity amidst the organisation of populations according to nation-states. This chapter, consistent with the overall aim of the volume, discusses refugee integration in a way that can shed significant light on the potential and the limits of individual responsibility. It argues that what is key to understanding contemporary debates in Europe is how matters of race and the postcolonial legacies cast a long shadow, and that refugee receiving societies need to take responsibility for these issues rather than ignore them.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Foreword V
- Table of Contents VII
- Responsibility for integration 1
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Witnessing
- Bearing witness: The burden of individual responsibility and the rule of law 9
- De-integration of young Syrian activists in Paris 25
- Understanding the challenges of integration from the refugee perspective 41
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Barriers and challenges
- The legacies of race and postcolonialism: Taking responsibility for migration 51
- Historical perspectives on migrant integration in Atlantic Canada, 1812–1825 65
- National minorities, immigration, and responsibility: French Canada as a case study, 1840–1960 81
- Less “human” than us: dehumanisation as a psychological barrier to the integration of migrants 99
- The role of trauma and cultural distance in refugee integration 113
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Responding
- Newcomer integration, individual agency, and responsibility 131
- Why volunteers should be activists: towards an ethics of ground relationships 149
- Applying behavioural science to refugee integration 165
- The practice of newcomer integration and importance of perspectives 183
- Perspectives on individual responsibility in the context of refugee and migrant integration 193
- Cyberhate against academics 205
- Day 1 227
- List of contributors 231
- Index 233
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Foreword V
- Table of Contents VII
- Responsibility for integration 1
-
Witnessing
- Bearing witness: The burden of individual responsibility and the rule of law 9
- De-integration of young Syrian activists in Paris 25
- Understanding the challenges of integration from the refugee perspective 41
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Barriers and challenges
- The legacies of race and postcolonialism: Taking responsibility for migration 51
- Historical perspectives on migrant integration in Atlantic Canada, 1812–1825 65
- National minorities, immigration, and responsibility: French Canada as a case study, 1840–1960 81
- Less “human” than us: dehumanisation as a psychological barrier to the integration of migrants 99
- The role of trauma and cultural distance in refugee integration 113
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Responding
- Newcomer integration, individual agency, and responsibility 131
- Why volunteers should be activists: towards an ethics of ground relationships 149
- Applying behavioural science to refugee integration 165
- The practice of newcomer integration and importance of perspectives 183
- Perspectives on individual responsibility in the context of refugee and migrant integration 193
- Cyberhate against academics 205
- Day 1 227
- List of contributors 231
- Index 233
