Pre-arrival integration tests used by European countries suggest
discriminatory measures subtly p... more Pre-arrival integration tests used by European countries suggest discriminatory measures subtly persist in immigration laws. This paper draws on a comparison across the Americas and Europe to identify and explain historical continuities and discontinuities in ‘assimilability’ admissions requirements. We attribute legal shifts at the turn of the twenty-first century to the institutionalised delegitimisation of biological racism and the rise of permanent settlement immigration to Europe. Efforts to reduce Muslim immigration largely motivate contemporary European policies, but these policies test putative individual capacity to integrate rather than inferring it from a racial group categorisation, as did historical precedents in the Americas.
Pre-arrival integration tests used by European countries suggest
discriminatory measures subtly p... more Pre-arrival integration tests used by European countries suggest discriminatory measures subtly persist in immigration laws. This paper draws on a comparison across the Americas and Europe to identify and explain historical continuities and discontinuities in ‘assimilability’ admissions requirements. We attribute legal shifts at the turn of the twenty-first century to the institutionalised delegitimisation of biological racism and the rise of permanent settlement immigration to Europe. Efforts to reduce Muslim immigration largely motivate contemporary European policies, but these policies test putative individual capacity to integrate rather than inferring it from a racial group categorisation, as did historical precedents in the Americas.
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discriminatory measures subtly persist in immigration laws. This
paper draws on a comparison across the Americas and Europe to
identify and explain historical continuities and discontinuities in
‘assimilability’ admissions requirements. We attribute legal shifts at
the turn of the twenty-first century to the institutionalised
delegitimisation of biological racism and the rise of permanent
settlement immigration to Europe. Efforts to reduce Muslim
immigration largely motivate contemporary European policies, but
these policies test putative individual capacity to integrate rather
than inferring it from a racial group categorisation, as did
historical precedents in the Americas.
discriminatory measures subtly persist in immigration laws. This
paper draws on a comparison across the Americas and Europe to
identify and explain historical continuities and discontinuities in
‘assimilability’ admissions requirements. We attribute legal shifts at
the turn of the twenty-first century to the institutionalised
delegitimisation of biological racism and the rise of permanent
settlement immigration to Europe. Efforts to reduce Muslim
immigration largely motivate contemporary European policies, but
these policies test putative individual capacity to integrate rather
than inferring it from a racial group categorisation, as did
historical precedents in the Americas.