Immigration and civil society New ways of democratic transformation

Óscar García Agustín and Martin Bak Jørgensen
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Óscar García Agustín: Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark
Martin Bak Jørgensen: Centre for the Studies of Migration and Diversity, Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark

Migration Letters, 2013, vol. 10, issue 3, 271-276

Abstract: In this special issue, we consider it essential to understand the potential of “democratic transformation”, fostered by civil society, not as a transition to democracy but as a way of deepening democracy. In our understanding democratic transformation is based on the power of organized civil society actors to challenge the institutional order rather than an achievement measured against the main characteristics of representative democracy. The seven papers which constitute this special issue all deal with different aspects of immigration, civil society and democratic transformations. Together they offer insight into different national cases by describing and analyzing immigrant mobilization in Denmark (Jørgensen), France (Suárez-Krabbe), Italy (Ambrosini), Portugal (Abrantes), Spain (García; Suárez-Krabbe), Sweden (Ålund et al.), the Netherlands (Suárez-Krabbe), and United Kingdom (Suárez-Krabbe).

Keywords: Democratic transformations; civil Society; migration policies; social change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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