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dc.date.accessioned2011-07-25T09:22:42Z
dc.date.available2011-07-25T09:22:42Z
dc.date.issued2011-07-25T09:22:42Z
dc.identifier.uriurn:nbn:de:hebis:34-2010091334573
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2010091334573
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsUrheberrechtlich geschützt
dc.rights.urihttps://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/
dc.subjectpolitical participation of migrantseng
dc.subjectUnited Stateseng
dc.subjectGermanyeng
dc.subjectpolitical opportunity structureseng
dc.subjectneo-institutionalismeng
dc.subject.ddc320
dc.titleCooperation or Confrontation?eng
dc.typeWorking paper
dcterms.abstractWith globalization and increased connectedness, migration has become a political issue. Nevertheless, without citizenship participation in the political system in the host society is limited. Based on a neo-institutionalist approach and referring to political opportunity structure theory, this paper analyzes differences in means of political participation by migrants in two cities, one in the U.S. and one in Germany. Specific focus is put on the welfare state as one factor potentially influencing forms of participation of migrants. From interviews with migrants, local governments, and organizations, this paper establishes that political participation in the German city, Essen, is more institutionalized than in the U.S. city, Newark, NJ, where demonstrations and rallies play a more significant role. Looking at these findings, this paper explains the differences with a variation in the political opportunity structure between the two cities. Whereas in the conservative-corporatist welfare state, ideas of collective bar-gaining and the conferral of social rights to migrants leads to government-created bodies for migrant participation, in the U.S. city, these bodies do not exist and, therefore, migrants use different means of political participation. Through the conferral of social rights on migrants as well, in Germany, the cleavage between migrants and majority society has been pacified. In the U.S. city, where this is not the case, demonstrations and rallies are more common.eng
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
dcterms.alternativeMigrant Political Participation in Essen and Newarkeng
dcterms.creatorHeimeshoff, Lisa-Marie
dcterms.isPartOfNew Research in Global Political Economy ;; 04/2011eng
dc.subject.swdDeutschlandger
dc.subject.swdUSAger
dc.subject.swdEinwandererger
dc.subject.swdPolitische Beteiligungger
dcterms.source.seriesNew Research in Global Political Economy
dcterms.source.volume04/2011


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