![]() ![]() in Liberal Arts and Sciences from the University College Maastricht. She holds a European Joint Degree in “International Migration and Social Cohesion” from the University of Amsterdam, the University of Deusto and the University of Osnabrück and a B.A. Her doctoral research focuses on the negotiations between local administrations, civil society groups and other actors around the reception and participation of refugees across time in one mid-sized German city. Sophie Hinger is a research assistant and doctoral student at the Department of Geography and a member of the Institute of International Migration and Intercultural Relations (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück. The event was chaired by Aneta Piekut and Jean-Marie Lafleur was the discussant. Please find the recording here. During this event, the editors, Sophie Hinger and Reinhard Schweitzer, discussed the book. On April 22, 2021, the University of Sheffield hosted the book presentation on “Politics of (Dis)Integration”. Through featuring a fertile combination of comparative policy analyses and ethnographic research based on original material from six European and two non-European countries, this book will be a great resource for students, academics and policy makers in migration and integration studies. By analysing how (dis)integration works within a wide range of legal and institutional settings, this book contributes to the literature on integration by considering (dis)integration as a highly stratified process. ![]() The book highlights the variety of ways in which integration and disintegration are related to, and often depend on each other. This affects individual lives as well as social cohesion. This text is the ideal companion for upper undergraduate and postgraduate students of the European Union, as part of degrees in politics, international relations or European studies, or for anyone interested in the crises of the European Union.This open access book explores how contemporary integration policies and practices are not just about migrants and minority groups becoming part of society but often also reflect deliberate attempts to undermine their inclusion or participation. The fate of the integration process will depend on whether other, more inclusive forms of stabilizing leadership may emerge to fill the vacuum created by Berlin's incapacity. ![]() Until now, Germany has been the EU's stabilizing force but this is no longer guaranteed. Webber instead shows that it is only by looking at the role of the EU's dominant member, Germany, in each crisis that the potential for an increasingly fragmented Europe becomes clear. High levels of socio-economic interdependence and institutionalization have failed to result in an ever closer union, and yet the proposed theories of disintegration also fall short. This text offers a concise and readable assessment of the dynamics, character and consequences of these four crises and the increasingly real possibility of European disintegration. The Union has been beset with high levels of Eurozone debt, Russian intervention and armed conflict in Ukraine, refugees fleeing conflict zones in North Africa and the Middle East, and the decision of Britain to leave the European Union. Observers of the European Union (EU) could be forgiven for thinking that it is in a state of permanent crisis. This new book provides a comprehensive analysis of Europe on the brink of political disintegration. ![]()
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