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Beyond Integration: Intersectional Issues of Social Solidarity and Social Hierarchy

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Contesting Integration, Engendering Migration

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In this chapter I maintain that we should be cautious and wary of the tropes of integration, which, I argue, tend towards the reinforcement of social boundaries and hierarchies while purportedly being aimed at dismantling them. I suggest, instead, recognition of the complex hetero- geneities of social life, which are temporal and situational rather than given and marked. I also suggest that it is the ways in which difference is fixed and marked which constitute the problem of modern society, rather than heterogeneity as such. In the political arena, therefore, I sug- gest a move away from the discourse and policy of integration towards facing the challenge posed by the situated, complex and intersectional nature of heterogeneity. This relates also to the role of boundaries and hierarchies in power relations and how people engage, negotiate and resist them as well as internalize them.

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    Floya Anthias (Professor of Sociology)

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Anthias, F. (2014). Beyond Integration: Intersectional Issues of Social Solidarity and Social Hierarchy. In: Anthias, F., Pajnik, M. (eds) Contesting Integration, Engendering Migration. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137294005_2

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