Active participation of immigrants in Spain.Country Report prepared for the European research project POLITIS, Oldenburg 2005 (original) (raw)

Civic activation of immigrants - An introduction to conceptual and theoretical issues

Oldenburg: IBKM, 2005

Residents in 25 Countries". The project seeks to improve our understanding of different factors that promote or inhibit the active civic participation of immigrants. Funded by the European Commission, the project is unique in its construction and has included workshops with foreign-born students recruited as discussants and interviewers and the preparation of country reports on the contextual conditions and the state of research concerning civic participation of immigrants by country experts in all 25 EU countries. These reports can be downloaded from www.uni-oldenburg.de/politis-europe

Immigrant Political Participation in Europe

Comparative Sociology

This paper compares participation in different forms of political action between natives, immigrants and non-citizen immigrants using data from thirteen European countries across six waves of the European Social Survey. The authors highlight problems associated with previous categorizations of political action, and find that when political action is disaggregated and relative participation between groups is examined, that immigrants’ patterns of participation are not substantially different from those of natives. When comparing citizen immigrants to non-citizen immigrants, previous research has suggested that citizenship acts as a “ticket” to non-institutional, unconventional, confrontational forms of political action. The authors’ findings instead suggest a more complicated relationship between immigrant/citizenship status and preferences for political action since citizenship may facilitate participation in both so-called institutional and extra-institutional activities depending ...