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Books reviewed in this article:John Urry, Sociology beyond societies: mobilities for the twenty‐first century, New York and London: RoutledgeNikos Papastergiadis, The turbulence of migration: globalization, deterritorialization and hybridityStephen Castles and Alastair Davidson, Citizenship and migration: globalization and the politics of belonging

Notions of integration in European research are traced from the 1960s-1990s through the paradigms of assimilation, integration, & citizenship. The influence of North American concepts about integration on European research has been substantial, but this has led to an uncomfortable translation into European immigration policy. With the advent of the European Union, opportunities for cross-national integration research within Europe have expanded & professional nongovernmental organizations have also become involved. However, a review of current European integration research for Belgium, France, GB, & the Netherlands, supplemented with reference to Austria, Germany, & Scandinavia, reveals how integration scholarship has reproduced nation-state-centered & nation-society reasoning that neglects the evolving relation between migrants & ethnic minorities & the European host societies. This neglect is also seen in commissioned research on immigration policy & in national & census studies on immigrants. Clear cross-national studies are still difficult; a better understanding of cross-national diversity & difference requires common categorization of migrants & minorities, & definition & measurement of a common dependent variable at various political levels. 173 References. M. Pflum

Der Autor thematisiert in seinem Beitrag den hohen Stellenwert, den der Begriff der "Integration" in der gegenwärtigen Migrationsforschung und in den politischen Debatten um Einwanderung besitzt. Er diskutiert die Gründe, warum die Idee der Integration zu einer "öffentlichen Philosophie" geworden ist und warum dieser scheinbar willkürliche Begriff bestimmte, nationalstaatlich bezogene Konturen erhalten hat und zu bestimmten Formen der Politikformulierung zwingt. Der Autor skizziert das Entstehen des integrationspolitischen Denkens in der Öffentlichkeit und in der Forschung, das in paradigmatischer Hinsicht als ein multikultureller "Nation Building-Prozess" erscheint. Vor diesem Hintergrund erhalten auch die aktuellen Fragen der europäischen Integration einen besondere Bedeutung. (ICI)