Moving from Integration to Participation? Notes on the Interrelationship between Communal and Associative Relationships

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Moving from Integration to Participation? Notes on the Interrelationship between Communal and Associative Relationships

Description

There are current trends in public and academic debates which point toward a wish of some analysts and observers to “de-culturalize” debates on international migration. In German debates, it is the term “integration” which has an alleged culturalizing effect and which therefore should be avoided and discarded as a concept of practice and as a concept of theory. In contrast to these positions we argue that there is a fundamental nexus between communal relations (Vergemeinschaftung or integration) and sociation (Vergesellschaftung). It is only by relating communal relations and sociation that we can understand the logics of important institutions such as citizenship and welfare states. Analytical concepts such as Vergemeinschaftung and Vergesellschaftung are necessary because they help us to account for fundamental changes. We find that in recent decades the meaning of integration connected to nationhood in public debates has changed from an ethno-cultural understanding to a republican one which is simultaneously characterized by increasing demands upon individuals who are conceptualized as autonomous persons (individualization). 
 
Full text available at: https://doi.org/10.22215/rera.v11i1.252

Creator

Faist, Thomas
Ulbricht, Christian

Source

Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies; 2017: RERA V11:1 Transatlantic Perspectives on Citizenship and Diversity: Changing Trends (backfile abstracts)
2562-8429
10.22215/cjers.v11i1

Publisher

Centre for European Studies, Carleton University

Date

2017-05-20

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article

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Citation

Thomas Faist and Christian Ulbricht, Moving from Integration to Participation? Notes on the Interrelationship between Communal and Associative Relationships, Centre for European Studies, Carleton University, 2017, accessed November 7, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/2775

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