Illiberal Integrationism: The Myth of Shared Values
Autor Dr. Stefan Manser-Eglien Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 oct 2026
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 for rethinking how migration is governed, how values are mobilized, and what it means to belong in pluralistic societies.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9798216449010
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
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
References
Index
About the Author
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
References
Index
About the Author
Recenzii
Bridging empirical social science and political theory, this book powerfully shows that value-based "integration" is incompatible with liberal democracy, not only because it excludes migrants as Other, but because democracy is-and should be-about contestation rather than shared values.
In this necessary interdisciplinary work, Stefan Manser-Egli deconstructs the "shared values" requirement increasingly used to police citizenship. Drawing deftly on political theory and critical sociology, Illiberal Integrationism demonstrates that granting street-level bureaucrats the power to judge inner convictions creates a problematic double standard between citizens and migrants, ultimately undermining many of the values of liberal democracy-freedom of conscience and expression-that it claims to uphold.
lliberal Integrationism offers a powerful, incisive, and provocative critique of the dominant paradigm of "migrant integration" that continues to shape academic, political, and public debates across Europe and beyond. Challenging the moral imperatives of "migrant integration" and of "shared national values," Manser-Egli exposes their fundamentally illiberal underpinnings. The book calls for a shift toward democratic contestation grounded in pluralism-a core feature of modern democracy. This stimulating book is not only set to become a key landmark in social theory and contemporary political debate, but will also reshape our understanding of migrant integration.
If Jürgen Habermas, in his Tanner Lectures (1986), argued that Switzerland could serve as a model of multicultural federalism for Europe, identifying constitutional patriotism as the benchmark for the inclusion of foreigners, Manser-Egli goes a step further by combining qualitative analysis with political philosophy-particularly liberal democratic theory-to show that Swiss integrationism, centered on "shared values," is fundamentally illiberal and incompatible with democratic pluralism.
In an intense conversation between a case study on Switzerland and philosophical problematizations of national citizenship, Manser-Egli's important account demonstrates that however fully the apparatus of integration is turned inside out, apparently emptied of its historical baggage and leaving only the wrap of liberal democratic values, the very concept of value cannot dismantle and instead continues to insulate the racial and colonial infrastructure of European borders and citizenships. As this important book shows, a liberal imagination of our togetherness has failed if not expressly refused to actually problematize its claim of historical inevitability beyond admissions of practical inadequacies and past injustices. By forcefully inhabiting the stubborn controversies that surround this claim and through careful engagement with concrete political practices, this book announces our situated responsibilities to think, study, research and act against these containments and separations.
In this necessary interdisciplinary work, Stefan Manser-Egli deconstructs the "shared values" requirement increasingly used to police citizenship. Drawing deftly on political theory and critical sociology, Illiberal Integrationism demonstrates that granting street-level bureaucrats the power to judge inner convictions creates a problematic double standard between citizens and migrants, ultimately undermining many of the values of liberal democracy-freedom of conscience and expression-that it claims to uphold.
lliberal Integrationism offers a powerful, incisive, and provocative critique of the dominant paradigm of "migrant integration" that continues to shape academic, political, and public debates across Europe and beyond. Challenging the moral imperatives of "migrant integration" and of "shared national values," Manser-Egli exposes their fundamentally illiberal underpinnings. The book calls for a shift toward democratic contestation grounded in pluralism-a core feature of modern democracy. This stimulating book is not only set to become a key landmark in social theory and contemporary political debate, but will also reshape our understanding of migrant integration.
If Jürgen Habermas, in his Tanner Lectures (1986), argued that Switzerland could serve as a model of multicultural federalism for Europe, identifying constitutional patriotism as the benchmark for the inclusion of foreigners, Manser-Egli goes a step further by combining qualitative analysis with political philosophy-particularly liberal democratic theory-to show that Swiss integrationism, centered on "shared values," is fundamentally illiberal and incompatible with democratic pluralism.
In an intense conversation between a case study on Switzerland and philosophical problematizations of national citizenship, Manser-Egli's important account demonstrates that however fully the apparatus of integration is turned inside out, apparently emptied of its historical baggage and leaving only the wrap of liberal democratic values, the very concept of value cannot dismantle and instead continues to insulate the racial and colonial infrastructure of European borders and citizenships. As this important book shows, a liberal imagination of our togetherness has failed if not expressly refused to actually problematize its claim of historical inevitability beyond admissions of practical inadequacies and past injustices. By forcefully inhabiting the stubborn controversies that surround this claim and through careful engagement with concrete political practices, this book announces our situated responsibilities to think, study, research and act against these containments and separations.