Identity and Participation in Culturally Diverse Societies (eBook)

Assaad Azzi is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Social Psychology unit at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. His research focuses on identity, resource-distribution, and the perception of justice and injustice in majority-minority relations. Xenia Chryssochoou is Associate Professor at Panteion University, Athens. She currently works on mobility, migration and justice and on perceptions of globalization and political participation. Bert Klandermans is Professor in Applied Social Psychology at the VU-University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is co-editor (with Suzanne Staggenborg, 2002) of Social Movements, Protest, and Contention and co-author, most recently, of the Handbook of Social Movements Across Disciplines (with Conny Roggeband, 2007). Bernd Simon is Professor of Social and Political Psychology and one of the Directors of the Institute of Psychology at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, Germany. His research investigates inter- and intragroup processes.

About the Editors and Contributors.

Introduction (Xenia Chryssochoou, Assaad E. Azzi, Bert
Klandermans, and Bernd Simon).

Part I Development, (Re)Construction, and Expression of
Collective Identities (Xenia Chryssochoou).

1 The Role of Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Class in Shaping Greek
American Identity, 1890-1927: A Historical Analysis
(Yannis G. S. Papadopoulos).

2 Religious Identity and Socio-Political Participation: Muslim
Minorities in Western Europe (Maykel Verkuyten).

3 The Bicultural Identity Performance of Immigrants (Shaun
Wiley and Kay Deaux).

4 Perceptions of (In)compatibility between Identities and
Participation in the National Polity of People belonging to Ethnic
Minorities (Xenia Chryssochoou and Evanthia Lyons).

Part II Collective Identity and Political Participation
(Bernd Simon).

5 Winners and Losers in the Europeanization of Public Policy
Debates: Empowering the Already Powerful? (Ruud Koopmans and
Paul Statham).

6 New Ways of Understanding Migrant Integration in Europe (P.
R. Ireland).

7 Collective Identity and Political Engagement (Bernd
Simon).

8 Collective Identity, Political Participation, and the Making
of the Social Self (Stephen Reicher and John Drury).

Part III Radicalization (Bert Klandermans).

9 Radicalization (Jacquelien van Stekelenburg and Bert
Klandermans).

10 Citizenship Regimes and Identity Strategies Among Young
Muslims in Europe (Catarina Kinnvall and Paul
Nesbitt-Larking).

11 Going All the Way: Politicization and Radicalization of the
Hofstad Network in the Netherlands (Martijn de Koning and Roel
Meijer).

12 Trajectories of Ideologies and Action in US Organized Racism
(Kathleen M. Blee).

13 No Radicalization without Identification: How Ethnic Dutch
and Dutch Muslim Web Forums Radicalize Over Time (Jacquelien van
Stekelenburg, Dirk Oegema, and Bert Klandermans).

Part IV Integration (Assaad E. Azzi).

14 Immigrant Acculturation: Psychological and Social Adaptations
(John W. Berry).

15 Ethnic Social Networks, Social Capital, and Political
Participation of Immigrants (Dirk Jacobs and Jean
Tillie).

16 Naturalization as Boundary Crossing: Evidence from Labor
Migrants in Germany (Claudia Diehl and Michael Blohm).

17 Confronting the Past to Create a Better Future: The
Antecedents and Benefits of Intergroup Forgiveness (Nyla R.
Branscombe and Tracey Cronin).

Conclusion: From Identity and Participation to Integration or
Radicalization: A Critical Appraisal (Assaad E. Azzi).

Name Index.

Subject Index.

"Azzi, Chryssochoou, Klandermans and Simon have produced a topical, interesting and highly commendable edited volume concerned with identity and participation in culturally diverse socities, which will serve both established researchers and newcomers to the field." (Social Psychological Review, 2011)

"This new collection uses an innovative blend of sociology, psychology and political science to outline current academic thinking about belonging and political action. Sweeping through discussions about how identity is formed, how it links to political participation, and when and why groups choose to integrate or radicalise, this book outlines the life-course of European political life." Runny Meade Bulletin, Autumn 2011

'This is a timely, incisive, and groundbreaking book on
participation amidst societal change. Its fascinating chapters
discuss a set of related topics - identity, intergroup
relations, inequality, and migration - providing rich insight
into dynamics of inclusion and exclusion. It is a great read that
capably charts the course for future research on complex and global
social issues.'

-- Professor Susan Opotow, City University of New York,
US



'This is really a remarkable book on an important,
complicated and challenging topic. It is a brilliant example of the
fruitfulness of true interdisciplinarity, which is not interested
in just being right, but in solving a problem with the serious and
open use of contributions from different sources. And it shows that
a strictly analytic perspective is not only possible in these
soft fields of identity and political engagement, but also the
only chance to find a way out of the various traps of more or less
open discourses or casual descriptions that we are mostly used to
seeing in these fields.'

-- Professor Hartmut Esser, University of Mannheim,
Germany

'Multi-disciplinarity is extolled by many, but practiced
by very few. This international team of contributors moves
across levels of analysis, disciplines, and contexts with real
intellectual verve. The volume impresses with its genuine and
serious attempt to examine identity as a rich latticework of
society and subjectivity. The esteemed team of editors -
learned scholars all - provide what may prove to be the new
social science of identity in society. I am excited by the
possibilities.'

-- Professor Colin Wayne Leach, Department of
Psychology, University of Connecticut, US

'Bridging psychology and sociology, this book demonstrates
the importance of self and identity for analyzing and understanding
social movements in diverse societies. With essays by some of the
most eminent scholars, this volume is a must-read for scholars
interested in how identity influences social movement recruitment,
activism, and maintenance.'

--Professor Verta Taylor, University of California
Santa Barbara, US

'This volume represents a turning point in the study of
cultural diversity. Migrations in a globalised world have rendered
the question of identity within diversity such a complex matter
that it requires the coordinated effort of several disciplines in
the social and human sciences. Identity and Participation in
Culturally Diverse Societies achieves this coordination through
the scientific rigour of an outstanding group of international
scholars with the insight derived from the added value of genuine
interdisciplinarity.'

-- Professor Fabrizio Butera, University of Lausanne,
Switzerland