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Mutual Integration in Immigration Society
An Epistemic Argument
New edition
A compelling argument for adopting the concept of “mutual integration” to overcome injustice and enhance social solidarity.
The public culture of the receiving society and the dominant understanding of belonging and political membership can influence the social participation of immigrants as much as immigration law. However, current discussions of integration focus primarily on the distribution of rights and neglect the role of tacit knowledge. Through a systematical and philosophical analysis of identity’s role in policymaking, governance, and social practice, Bodi Wang shows how a one-sided understanding of integration resembles “assimilation” and why integration should be expected from locals as well. This argument weaves together extensive findings in sociology, history, critical race theory, and Chinese philosophy with ethics and migration studies.
The public culture of the receiving society and the dominant understanding of belonging and political membership can influence the social participation of immigrants as much as immigration law. However, current discussions of integration focus primarily on the distribution of rights and neglect the role of tacit knowledge. Through a systematical and philosophical analysis of identity’s role in policymaking, governance, and social practice, Bodi Wang shows how a one-sided understanding of integration resembles “assimilation” and why integration should be expected from locals as well. This argument weaves together extensive findings in sociology, history, critical race theory, and Chinese philosophy with ethics and migration studies.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Integration Beyond Formal Equality
One The (Im)Possibility of Integration
The Assimilation-like Integration
The Muhammad Cartoon Controversy and the Generalized Other
The Problem of Moral Generalism
Segregation and the Perpetual Foreigners
When is Integration Possible?
Two Identity-based Thinking
Social Orders and Necessary Identity
Apparent Necessity, (Un)Justifiable Necessity, and the Identity of “Immigrant”
Identity-based Thinking and How It Excludes
Three The Epistemology of Identity-based Thinking
The Model of Assumed Objectivity
Epistemic Irresponsibility
Epistemic Injustice
Four Knowing People
Why Take Subjectivity into Consideration?
Narrative Knowledge and the Concrete Other
Ethics of Difference and the Moral Significance of Self-Cultivation
Five Making Sense of “Strangers”
Who are “Strangers” in Our Midst?
Structural Injustice and Two Structures That Make “Strangers”
“Not-Self”: The Self-Centered Model of Strangeness
The “Stranger” and the Need for the Third Element
Six History and Structural Transformation
Alienation: the Interactional, the Structural and the Existential
Why History?
History as a Social Connection Model of Responsibility
History as the Site of “Possibility”
Structural Transformation
Conclusion
Integration as Integration of People
Introduction
Integration Beyond Formal Equality
One The (Im)Possibility of Integration
The Assimilation-like Integration
The Muhammad Cartoon Controversy and the Generalized Other
The Problem of Moral Generalism
Segregation and the Perpetual Foreigners
When is Integration Possible?
Two Identity-based Thinking
Social Orders and Necessary Identity
Apparent Necessity, (Un)Justifiable Necessity, and the Identity of “Immigrant”
Identity-based Thinking and How It Excludes
Three The Epistemology of Identity-based Thinking
The Model of Assumed Objectivity
Epistemic Irresponsibility
Epistemic Injustice
Four Knowing People
Why Take Subjectivity into Consideration?
Narrative Knowledge and the Concrete Other
Ethics of Difference and the Moral Significance of Self-Cultivation
Five Making Sense of “Strangers”
Who are “Strangers” in Our Midst?
Structural Injustice and Two Structures That Make “Strangers”
“Not-Self”: The Self-Centered Model of Strangeness
The “Stranger” and the Need for the Third Element
Six History and Structural Transformation
Alienation: the Interactional, the Structural and the Existential
Why History?
History as a Social Connection Model of Responsibility
History as the Site of “Possibility”
Structural Transformation
Conclusion
Integration as Integration of People