Social Cohesion in Post-Migration Societies. In Defense of a Post-Migration Paradigm

What kind of border policies would facilitate social cohesion in egalitarian post-migration societies?This dissertation answers this question by reconnecting 'frame analysis', normative political philosophy and social sciences in an unprecedented manner. It argues that unless immigrant-receiving societies conceive of themselves as culturally, religiously, racially and ethnically diverse, then this frame will have harmful consequences for egalitarian societies, especially those with a generous Welfare state. This argument is controversial in normative political philosophy, given social cohesion, to the extent that it requires a commonly shared national identity, favors restrictive border policies. Instead, according to the egalitarian necessities of the national states of our time, border policies should be morally much more open than they currently are. The dissertation has three theoretical articles, and two articles on the cases of Switzerland in terms of religious diversity, by focusing on the minaret controversy, and Flanders in questioning the relationship between pro-independence parties and immigrants.

Jaar van publicatie:2019

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