Laura Morales

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INTRODUCTION TO THE EDITED VOLUME

• Laura Morales Marco Giugni

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Goals

• Discuss how to conceptualise the political
  integration of migrants.
• Describe the underlying analytical model that we
  aim to examine with different chapters in the
  book.
• Describe the research design, the methods and the
  data collection.
• Describe the context of the cases studied
  political opportunity structures.
• Describe the patterns of political engagement
  across cities and groups and explore
  multidimensionality.
• Present outline of the book summary of chapters.

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Conceptualising political integration

• Political assimilation? political incorporation?
• A relative or an absolute concept?
• We propose to view it as political inclusion (or
  the absence of political exclusion).
• Not necessarily equal to assimilation
  understood as identical patterns to autochthonous
  population.

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The underlying model micro, meso and macro
factors.

• The degree of civic and political integration of
  migrant/ethnic groups is dependent on
• the individual characteristics of immigrants
• the ethnic and non-ethnic character of
  organisation formation (i.e. the structure of
  organisational networks)
• the institutional and discursive opportunity
  structure and
• the characteristics of the ethnic group in the
  host society (demographic composition, size,
  position in the socio-economic structure).

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The context POS