{"product_id":"9781509549405","title":"The Integration Nation : Immigration and Colonial Power in Liberal Democracies by Adrian Favell","description":"The notion of `immigrant integration' is used everywhere - by politicians, policy makers, journalists and researchers - as an all-encompassing framework for rebuilding `unity from diversity' after large-scale immigration. Promising a progressive middle way between backward-looking ideas of assimilation and the alleged fragmentation of multiculturalism, `integration' has become the default concept for states scrambling to deal with global refugee management and the persistence of racial disadvantage.    Yet `integration' is the continuance of a long-standing colonial development paradigm. It is how majority-white liberal democracies absorb and benefit from mass migration while maintaining a hierarchy of race and nationality - and the global inequalities it sustains. Immigrant integration sits at the heart of the neo-liberal racial capitalism of recent decades, in which tight control of nation-building and bordering selectively enables some citizens to enjoy the mobilities of a globally integrating world, as other populations are left behind and locked out.    Subjecting research and policy on immigrant integration to theoretical scrutiny,?The Integration Nation?offers a fundamental rethink of a core concept in migration, ethnic and racial studies in the light of the challenge posed by decolonial theory and movements.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56301872284021,"sku":"9781509549405","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781509549405.jpg?v=1762791895","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781509549405","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}