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dc.contributor.authorMattes, Astrid
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-09T08:18:47Z
dc.date.available2018-01-09T08:18:47Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn2183-2803
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/55323
dc.description.abstractImmigrant integration is a contested policy field in which boundaries of membership are drawn and re-negotiated whereby groups of immigrants are partially included and excluded. Building on the concept of collective identity and theories of boundary making, this paper illustrates how religion functions as a category to mark and fill notions of self and otherness. As several studies have shown, immigrants in Europe are increasingly addressed as Muslims, a development that also serves the promotion of a Christian "us". Focusing on Austria and Germany, two countries where this is especially observable, the paper outlines the functioning of religion as symbolic boundary. The empirical study on national integration policies demonstrates how -within the relational process of boundary drawing against Muslims- a Christian identity narrative is established, how it functions as a marker of unity and how it relates to liberal and secular notions. Results from the qualitative content analysis of governmental policy programs from 2005 onwards show different patterns of boundary drawing on religion and the way they shape and limit the possibilities of inclusion. To understand this development, we have to look at Christian-democratic policy-makers, who currently dominate the political struggle for the power to define features of collective identity in immigrant integration policies.en
dc.languageen
dc.subject.ddcSozialwissenschaften, Soziologiede
dc.subject.ddcSocial sciences, sociology, anthropologyen
dc.subject.ddcSoziologie, Anthropologiede
dc.subject.ddcSociology & anthropologyen
dc.titleWho we are is what we believe?: religion and collective identity in Austrian and German immigrant integration policies
dc.description.reviewbegutachtet (peer reviewed)de
dc.description.reviewpeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/766
dc.source.journalSocial Inclusion
dc.source.volume5
dc.publisher.countryMISC
dc.source.issue1
dc.subject.classozMigrationde
dc.subject.classozMigration, Sociology of Migrationen
dc.subject.classozReligionssoziologiede
dc.subject.classozSociology of Religionen
dc.subject.thesozEinwanderungde
dc.subject.thesozimmigrationen
dc.subject.thesozMigrationde
dc.subject.thesozmigrationen
dc.subject.thesozIslamde
dc.subject.thesozIslamen
dc.subject.thesozkollektive Identitätde
dc.subject.thesozcollective identityen
dc.subject.thesozReligionde
dc.subject.thesozreligionen
dc.subject.thesozChristentumde
dc.subject.thesozChristianityen
dc.subject.thesozIntegrationde
dc.subject.thesozintegrationen
dc.subject.thesozInklusionde
dc.subject.thesozinclusionen
dc.subject.thesozMigrationspolitikde
dc.subject.thesozmigration policyen
dc.subject.thesozEinwanderungspolitikde
dc.subject.thesozimmigration policyen
dc.rights.licenceCreative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0de
dc.rights.licenceCreative Commons - Attribution 4.0en
internal.statusformal und inhaltlich fertig erschlossen
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dc.source.pageinfo93-104
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internal.identifier.classoz10218
internal.identifier.journal786
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internal.identifier.ddc300
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dc.source.issuetopicInternational migration and ethnic integration
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.17645/si.v5i1.766
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dc.description.pubstatusPublished Versionen
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internal.dda.referencehttps://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/oai/@@oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/766
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