Political and Religious Incorporation

Abstract

The EFFNATIS research focussed upon the widespread popular belief that children of international migrants are politically marginalised in Western Europe. In particular, children of migrants are often characterised (see Koser & Lutz, 1998; Gallis, 2005; Bawer, 2006) as less interested in the internal politics of countries like Britain, France and Germany than in the politics of their parents’ country of origin. Commentators have suggested that children of international migrants are more concerned with events such as the ongoing tensions in Kashmir (see Schofield, 1996) or the civil war in Algeria (see Silverstein, 2004) than in domestic autochthonous politics. In its most extreme form this can translate into membership of political parties based in parental countries of origin rather than membership of, or support for, autochthonous political parties.KeywordsPolitical PartyPrime MinisterInternational MigrantBritish Household Panel SurveyParty SupportThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.