Immigrant Incorporation in Political Parties

Exploring the diversity gap

Ricard Zapata-Barrero, Iris Dähnke, Lea Markard

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351630832
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

This book seeks to explore the potentialities of strengthening a new field of research within migration and diversity studies, that of immigrant incorporation in political parties. The point of departure of all the contributions to this volume is that there is what we call a 'diversity gap' between political parties as public representative organisations and diversity dynamics in democratic societies. Exploring the current strategies of political parties developing first conceptual frameworks, theoretical foundations and empirical hypothesis and approaches, this book examines case studies from four European countries: Germany, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Background, framework and focus of the special issue
• 1 How do political parties deal with the “diversity gap”? Democratic deficits and party strategies
• 2 Immigrants’ political claims in Portugal: confronting the political opportunity structure with perceptions and discourses
• 3 Contested discourses on diversity and practices of diversity incorporation in political parties in Germany
• 4 From participation to confinement: challenges for immigrants’ incorporation in political parties in Spain
• 5 Exploring the reasons for migrant under-representation in Irish electoral politics: the role of Irish political parties
• Index