Newcomer integration, individual agency, and responsibility
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Jan-Christoph Heilinger
Abstract
This paper analyses the responsibility of well-off citizens in high-income countries for contributing to the social task of newcomer integration into their society, based on a moral outlook stressing the equal moral worth of all. It discusses moral reasons to overcome apathy and inaction, offers a multilayered justification of individual responsibility, and points towards the importance of collective action and institutional support.
Abstract
This paper analyses the responsibility of well-off citizens in high-income countries for contributing to the social task of newcomer integration into their society, based on a moral outlook stressing the equal moral worth of all. It discusses moral reasons to overcome apathy and inaction, offers a multilayered justification of individual responsibility, and points towards the importance of collective action and institutional support.
Chapters in this book
- 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
Chapters in this book
- 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
