Mutual Integration in Immigration Society
An Epistemic Argument
Bodi Wang
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Bodi Wang, Mutual Integration in Immigration Society (2023), Campus Frankfurt / New York, 60486 Frankfurt/Main, ISBN: 9783593455303
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Beschreibung / Abstract
The public culture of the receiving society and the dominant understanding of belonging and political membership can influence the social participation of immigrants as much as immigration law. However, current discussions of integration focus primarily on the distribution of rights and neglect the role of tacit knowledge. Through a systematical and philosophical analysis of identity's role in policy-making, governance and social practice, Bodi Wang shows how a one-sided understanding of integration resembles »assimilation« and why integration should be expected from locals as well. Weaving together extensive findings in sociology, history, critical race theory and Chinese philosophy with ethics and migration studies, this book provides a compelling argument for adopting the concept of »mutual integration« to overcome injustice and to enhance social solidarity.
Beschreibung
Bodi Wang is a postdoc researcher in Department of Humanities, Social and Political Science at ETH Zurich.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- BEGINN
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction – Integration Beyond Formal Equality
- One – The (Im)Possibility of Integration
- The Assimilation‐like Integration
- The Muhammad Cartoon Controversy and the Generalized Other
- The Problem of Moral Generalism
- Segregation and Perpetual Foreignness
- When is Integration Possible?
- Two – Identity‐based Thinking
- Social Orders and Necessary Identity
- Apparent Necessity, (Un)Justifiable Necessity, and the Identity of “Immigrant”
- Identity‐based Thinking and How It Excludes
- Three – The Epistemology of Identity‐based Thinking
- The Model of Assumed Objectivity
- Epistemic Irresponsibility
- Epistemic Injustice
- Four – Knowing People
- Why Take Subjectivity into Consideration?
- Narrative Knowledge and the Concrete Other
- Ethics of Difference and the Moral Significance of Self‐Cultivation
- Five – Making Sense of “Strangers”
- Who are “Strangers” in Our Midst?
- Structural Injustice and Two Structures That Make “Strangers”
- “Not‐Self”: The Self‐Centered Model of Strangeness
- The “Stranger” and the Need for the Third Element
- Six – History and Structural Transformation
- Alienation: the Interactional, the Structural and the Existential
- Why History?
- History as a Social Connection Model of Responsibility
- History as the Site of “Possibility”
- Structural Transformation
- Conclusion – Integration as Integration of People
- Works Cited
- Index