Author: Anita Manatschal
EU Citizenship guarantees the same rights to all mobile EU citizens who move to another member state. And yet, as a recent study by Christian Adam, Xavier Fernández-i-Marín, Oliver James, Anita Manatschal, Carolin Rapp and Eva Thomann indicates, some EU citizens are more likely than others to face discrimination when ...
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Increasing global migration streams challenge social cohesion. The present blog contribution describes several lines of research examining how social norms shape the ways both national majorities in destination countries and immigrants react to increased diversity and its consequences. Overall, this research shows how social norms operating at the national and
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“Social cohesion is threatened in Western democracies in times of mobility and migration.” Such concerns are raised both privately and publicly and often linked to fears of a crisis of the nation state. Yet, what is meant by social cohesion in the first place? If defined as connectedness between individuals,
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Die Abstimmung über die erleichterte Einbürgerung von Personen der dritten Ausländergeneration vom 12. Februar wirft erneut die Frage nach dem Nutzen von Staatsbürgerschaft auf. Wissenschaftliche Studien belegen, dass dieser Nutzen weit über politische Mitsprache hinausgeht. Noch wichtiger als jeglicher greifbare Nutzen ist jedoch das symbolische Signal, das mit der anstehenden Abstimmung ausgesendet wird.
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