In Europe and North America, "integration" remains a pervasive concept in policy responses to the challenge of immigration and growing population diversity and inequalities. Focusing on the field of international migration studies, Adrian Favell's recent book, The Integration Nation: Immigration and Colonial Power in Liberal Democracies (Wiley, Feb. 2022) and the related article on a new "political demography", Immigration, integration and citizenship: elements of a new political demography (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Jan. 2022), deal with the insidious role of progressive ideas of “integration”. What kinds of alternative "disintegrative" responses might be found in more contentious approaches to global population inequalities? Is the progressive idea of integration maintaining global inequalities? Join us today as we dive into these questions and more with author Adrian Favell.
Participants are invited to read the JEMS paper prior to the event.
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