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INSTITUTIONAL AND DISCURSIVE OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURES MARCO GIUGNI (Universidad de Ginebra) Con la colaboración y financiación de:
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CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
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POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURE Individual rights Cultural group rights General political opportunity structure Specific political opportunity structure
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INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS Access to short-term permits Access to long-term permits Access to family reunion Access to nationality Labor market access Welfare state access Anti-discrimination rights Political rights
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CULTURAL GROUP RIGHTS Cultural requirements to access the community Language programs Schooling Religion Media Labor market: group rights
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GENERAL POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURE Configuration of powers Participatory mechanisms
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SPECIFIC POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURE Degree of development of immigrants’ integration policy at the local level Political representation of immigrants Attitude of local powers towards minority/immigrants organizations Attitude of local powers towards organizations whose activity is specialized in/has an impact on immigration/integration issues Political audience of anti-immigrant and radical right parties
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Some examples of the use of our indicators to ‘map’ the openness of POS in each city for different dimensions. Capacity to plot cities, but also distinguish between different migrant/ethnic groups within each city, whenever relevant. +1= most open, 0=neutral, -1=most closed
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ACCESS TO SHORT-TERM PERMITS
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ACCESS TO LONG-TERM PERMITS
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FAMILY REUNION
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ACCESS TO NATIONALITY
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WELFARE STATE ACCESS (ALL MIGRANT STATUSES)
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POLITICAL RIGHTS
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CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS
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RELIGION: ISLAM
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CONFIGURATION OF POWER
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PARTICIPATION MECHANISMS
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IMMIGRANTS’ INTEGRATION POLICIES
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POLITICAL REPRESENTATION OF IMMIGRANTS
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DISCURSIVE POS Goal: to measure POS that is not just based on institutional policies and practices, but also at the level of discourses and public representations. Methods: analysis of claims-making through newspaper reports. Results: only preliminary, but interesting contrasts between institutional & discursive POS. Interpretation also +1/-1.
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DISCURSIVE POS BY CITY (preliminary results, pending several cities)
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DISCURSIVE POS BY ACTOR (all cities together)
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NATIONAL/SUBNATIONAL (INSTITUTIONAL POS)
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NATIONAL/SUBNATIONAL (DISCURSIVE POS)
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SHARE OF MIGRANT ACTORS IN CLAIM-MAKING
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