Anti-migration populism, identity and community in an age of insecurity
This substantial new Amsterdam Process publication confronts the choices and dilemmas facing European social democratic parties as they respond to popular concerns about culture, migration and identity.
Summary
♦ Popular concerns over culture, migration and identity are of considerable importance to the future of European social democracy; their neglect marks a significant weakness and vulnerability.
♦ In losing sight of the need to provide people with a modern sense of belonging, community and collective mission, the centre-left is losing its guiding voice and with it the right to be heard by voters.
♦ The struggle to empathise with societal unease and respond to anti-immigrant, anti-elite and anti-Islamic populism is creating cleavages and fissures which cut through both the movement’s electoral constituencies and its parties’ political and policymaking fraternities.
Berlin Conference
The papers in this volume were presented at an international conference in Berlin on 20-21 January 2011. This Amsterdam Process conference, organised by Policy Network and the Wiardi Beckman Stichting in partnership with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and Das Progressive Zentrum, brought together senior political leaders, experts and policymakers from across Europe to discuss the cultural challenges to social democracy. Keynote speakers included: Frank Walter Steinmeier, leader of the SPD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag; Job Cohen, Leader of the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA); and Trevor Phillips, chair of the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Contents
The right side of the argument? The centre-left’s response to migration and multiculturalism
Tim Bale, University of Sussex
Liberals v communitarians: the left’s civil war
David Goodhart, Prospect Magazine
The populist revolt against cosmopolitanism
René Cuperus, Wiardi Beckman Stichting
Responding to populist value triangulation
Laurent Bouvet, University of Nice
An electorate set free: culture, symbolism and social democracy
Mark Elchardus, University of Brussels
Progressives should embrace diversity
Philippe Legrain, author and commentator
The Three I’s: Immigration, Integration and Islam
Trevor Phillips, UK Equality and Human Rights Commission
Progressive multiculturalism: a social democratic response to cultural diversity?
Elena Jurado, Policy Network
Reputations matter: What is needed for a competent immigration policy and effective integration policy?
Shamit Saggar, University of Sussex
The open society and its believers
Paul Scheffer, University of Amsterdam
Social democracy and the fall-out from multicultural collectivisation
Dilsa Demirbag Sten, Swedish author and journalist
How can social democrats cherish identity and community in a multi-ethnic, cosmopolitan era?
Maurice Glasman, London Metropolitan University
Rethinking suburbia in an age of insecurity: hard times on the edge?
Rupa Huq, Kingston University
Identity and politics in Europe, Flanders and Belgium
Tinneke Beeckman, University of Brussels
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