Integration as an essentially contested concept : questioning the assumptions behind the national Roma integration strategies of Italy and Spain

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorMAGAZZINI, Tina
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-24T08:37:26Z
dc.date.available2019-10-24T08:37:26Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractIntegration is a term that can fittingly be included in what W. B. Gallie labelled ‘essentially contested concepts’, since it has become a key term in both academia and policy-making and yet can be used – as it is – for a variety of meanings. While usually understood to address the situation of migrants, it has also recently been applied to Roma minorities in Europe, the vast majority of whom are European citizens and a minority of whom have left their country of origin. This chapter builds upon a discourse analysis of the National Roma Integration Strategies in Italy and Spain and on interviews with the policy-makers in charge of them, in a bid to understand what the term ‘integration’ means for Roma minorities according to the authorities. Through this analysis, I show how the politics of (dis)integration can affect not only migrants but also ethnic minorities who are represented and treated as similarly ‘foreign’ to the mainstream’s imagined community. In this sense, Roma-specific integration policies do not challenge wider structures of inequality. Even if they are well intended, they can contribute to the normalisation of a hegemonic narrative that sees a certain section of society – namely a national middle-class white society – as the bar for normality.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationSophie HINGER and Reinhard SCHWEITZER (eds), Politics of (dis)integration, Cham : Springer, 2020, IMISCOE research series, pp. 41-59en
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-030-25089-8_3
dc.identifier.isbn9783030250881
dc.identifier.isbn9783030250898
dc.identifier.issn2364-4087
dc.identifier.issn2364-4095
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/64685
dc.language.isoenen
dc.orcid.putcode1814/79911:63573219
dc.orcid.uploadtrue*
dc.publisherSpringeren
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.rights.licenseAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.titleIntegration as an essentially contested concept : questioning the assumptions behind the national Roma integration strategies of Italy and Spainen
dc.typeContribution to booken
dspace.entity.typePublication
person.identifier.orcid0000-0001-8534-0175
person.identifier.other43880
relation.isAuthorOfPublication25ef3da0-6a83-4909-b3ee-b15cc2280827
relation.isAuthorOfPublication.latestForDiscovery25ef3da0-6a83-4909-b3ee-b15cc2280827
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Magazzini2020_Chapter_IntegrationAsAnEssentiallyCont.pdf
Size:
414.63 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Full-text in Open Access
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
license.txt
Size:
3.83 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download
Collections
RSC Contributions to Books