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Public culture in societies of immigration [Recurs electrònic] / Rainer Bauböck
Series: Working paper series (IWE)Publication details: Wien : Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Forschungsstelle für Institutionellen Wandel und Europaïsche Integration ; 2001Description: 15 p. : digital, fitxer PDF (71,57 Kb)Online resources: Summary: The idea I want to develop in this paper is that public culture in societies of immigration must be self-transformative. In a way this is the very opposite of a defining culture that sets the terms of integration, although both share the assumption that democratic societies exposed to immigration need a common cultural framework that is supported by their political institutions. So it may be useful to start with a brief look at how the CDU defines the defining culture. The manifesto lists three elements: constitutional principles and values, the German language and the Christian-occidental community of values. The fist two items will also figure in my own list. In these regards the dispute is not about whether to include, but how to interpret these elements. It is the last item that reveals the intention of the political campaign. Immigrants can endorse constitutional principles and they can make efforts to learn the language of the receiving country. However, a Christian-occidental culture can be neither chosen nor learned. Combining the markers of religion (Christian) and geographic origin (occidental) creates a boundary between the natives and certain groups of immigrants that is meant to exclude the latter. Ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe or migrants from other EU member states already belong to this Christianoccidental community, the two million immigrants from Turkey don't. The authors of the CDU manifesto seem to be fully aware of this. They even felt the need for some fine-tuning, in order not to exclude the wrong groups: thus, ironically, Judaism is listed among the sources of Christian-occidental culture. (Font: Document)| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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1. The role of public culture -- 2. Language -- 3. History -- 5. Conclusions -- References
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