Boundary integrationism and its subject: shifts and continuities in the EU framework on migrant integration
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F23%3A10466573" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/23:10466573 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2023.2247170" target="_blank" >10.1080/1369183X.2023.2247170</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Boundary integrationism and its subject: shifts and continuities in the EU framework on migrant integration
Original language description
The European Union emerged as an important actor in debates on 'migrant integration', yet remains understudied. This paper critically maps the EU Framework on migrant integration, outlining the ruptures and continuities that have shaped EU's approach to 'diversity governance' in the past three decades. I propose a typology of the (sometimes opposing) discourses that converge in the EU migrant integration policy, differentiating between neoliberal, egalitarian (welfarist), securitarian and boundary integrationism. I argue that while the early predominantly welfarist and neoliberal discourse on integration was only vaguely interested in questions of values and identity, the recent reformulation of the EU's integrationist strategy represents a break from universalist ideas of a 'European community'. In particular, the Commission under von der Leyen adopted a more nativist and securitarian discourse that frames 'integration' as a wager in an alleged civilizationist clash between the liberal and the 'illiberal' world. I argue that the rising importance of adherence to liberal values as a proxy for 'integration', the reinvention of 'European values' as cultural values springing from the Judeo-Christian liberal tradition, and drawing new boundaries around the subject of integration are three developments that amount to an important shift in the European Union's migration and integration agenda.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
ISSN
1369-183X
e-ISSN
1469-9451
Volume of the periodical
2023
Issue of the periodical within the volume
August
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
001047649700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85168095379