Las argucias del concepto de integración: una exploración por el paisaje europeo (The Cunning of Integrationist Logic: An Exploration of the European Landscape)
Keywords:
Migration Policies, Inmigrants Integration, Nation-Building, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Spain. Políticas Migratorias, Integración de Inmigrantes, Construcción Nacional, Reino Unido, Francia, Países Bajos, Estado Español.Abstract
This article argues that immigrant integration policies be viewed as tools for construction of the national. It does so by illuminating the links between debates about immigrant integration and ways of imagining the nation and national identity. To this end, the article analyzes the political and socioeconomic context in which the presence of immigrants from non European Union countries is defined as a problem of integration. It centers on three traditional immigration receiving countries after World War II - the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands - and Spain, a newer destination country of the post-Fordist era. The study shows commonalities in wording, categorizations, and problem definition across these countries in debates about non European Union immigrants without ignoring state particularities. Above all, it demonstrates the persistence of "integration" as a term to reference relationships between European societies and the non-European immigrant population
Este artículo propone pensar las políticas de integración de inmigrantes como herramientas de construcción nacional, a partir de iluminar las vinculaciones entre los debates sobre integración de inmigrantes y las formas de imaginar la nación y la identidad nacional. Con ese objetivo se analiza el contexto político y socioeconómico en el cual la presencia inmigrante de países no cumunitarios comienza a ser problematizada en términos de integración. Se exploran los casos de tres países tradicionales receptores de inmigración después de terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial -Reino Unido, Francia y Países Bajos- y el Estado español, devenido en destino de inmigrantes en el contexto post-fordista. Sin dejar de considerar las particularidades estatales, el texto muestra la similitud de lenguajes, categorizaciones y problematizaciones, a la hora de debatir la presencia inmigrante no comunitaria. Y, sobre todo, la persistencia del término integración para nominar las relaciones entre las sociedades europeas y la población inmigrante no europea.
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