Just Ordinary Citizens?

"Just Ordinary Citizens? draws together findings on immigrants' political participation, socialization, institutional engagement, and overall integration into politics. Readers of this volume will walk away with a sound and comprehensive understanding of the topic, as well as insights into the major studies and principal methodological approaches employed in the field." -- Erin Tolley, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto "This volume is a coherent and intellectually captivating contribution to the debate on immigrants' political integration." -- Oliver Schmidtke, Centre for Global Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria

Just Ordinary Citizens? offers a behavioural perspective on the political integration of immigrants, describing and analysing the relationships that immigrants develop with politics in their host countries.

Since the 1960s, the number of immigrants living in liberal democracies has been steadily rising. Despite the existence of numerous studies on social, economic, and geographic integration, few books have addressed the integration of immigrants into the politics of their host countries. When it comes to politics, are immigrants just ordinary citizens?

This edited collection considers the political integration of immigrants in a number of liberal democracies. Just Ordinary Citizens? offers a behavioural perspective on the political integration of immigrants, describing and analysing the relationships that immigrants develop with politics in their host countries. The chapters provide both unique national insights and a comparative perspective on the national case studies, while editor Antoine Bilodeau offers both a framework within which to understand these examples and a systematic review of more than 300 studies of immigrant political integration from the last sixty years.