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This book investigates how the concept of integration-mobilized through the demand for “shared values”-functions both as an ideal and as bureaucratic practice in contemporary Europe.
Drawing on official state narratives and the everyday practices of frontline bureaucrats in immigration and naturalization processes, Stefan Manser-Egli uncovers an illiberal integrationism that legitimizes intrusive governance, culturalized imaginaries of society, and boundary-making in the name of liberal democracy-while ultimately undermining its core principles. The book argues that the ideology of shared values is incompatible with liberal democracy, and instead calls for a radical reimagining of integration through value pluralism, democratic contestation, and agonistic politics. In so doing, it not only advances academic debates on integration and liberal democracy, but also equips scholars, practitioners, and policymakers with a critical framework to rethink how migration is governed, how values are mobilized, and what it means to belong in pluralistic societies.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Integration in Liberal Democracy: Whom into What
3. Switzerland: An Extreme Case of the Democratic Paradox
4. Culturalization and the Community of Value(s)
5. Integration as a Totalizing Institution
6. Illiberal Integrationism
7. Beyond Integration
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| Published | 12 Nov 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9798216449027 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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