The Open Society and its Immigrants: A Story of Avoidance, Conflict and Accommodation
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Channel: Trinity College Dublin · 2014 · Education
Migrants from every corner of the world have changed the urban communities in Europe in the post-war era. The deficit of most studies in the field of migration is that the interaction of natives and newcomers is not analyzed, but moralized. What we need is a more open-minded view of the frictions and clashes characteristic of any mass migration process. In the 1920s, the founder of the Chicago school of sociology, Robert Park described a cycle of ethnic relations that progressed from 'isolation through competition, conflict and accommodation to assimilation'. The history of migration in America and Europa shows us that most integration processes entail avoidance, conflict and accommodation. The conflicts surrounding immigration can be productive, if we succeed in rethinking the idea of an open society. Speaker: Professor Paul Scheffer (University of Tilburg) http://www.tcd.ie http://www.tcd.ie/sociology/
