How (not) to think about ethnicity in immigrant societies
How (not) to think about ethnicity in immigrant societies
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如何（不）思考移民社会中的种族问题
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2007
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通讯作者：
J. G. Herder
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A. Wimmer;J. G. Herder
自从芝加哥学派开始以来，移民研究就假设区分各种移民社区和原住民是理解种族的明显起点。我表明这意味着赫尔德式的世界观，它将世界自然地划分为一系列不同的“民族”。在比较人类学研究的基础上，讨论了这种方法的三个主要分析和实证问题。一种更有前途的方法是边界制定的视角，着眼于族群出现和转变的动态。从这个角度来看，“同化”和“融合”似乎是可逆的、权力驱动的边界转移过程，而不是克服文化差异和社会距离的结果。最后一部分讨论了最适合未来工作的四种研究设计。他们以地域、个人、社会阶层、制度领域或事件链而不是族群作为分析和观察的单位。
Since its beginnings in the Chicago school, migration research has assumed that distinguishing between various immigrant communities and autochthons is the obvious starting point for understanding ethnicity. I show that this implies a Herderian perspective on the world which naturalizes its division into a series of distinct “peoples”. Three major analytical and empirical problems of this approach are discussed, on the basis of comparative anthropological research. A more promising approach is the boundary-making perspective that looks at the dynamics of the emergence and transformation of ethnic groups. Seen from this perspective, “assimilation” and “integration” appear as reversible, power-driven processes of boundary shifting, rather than the result of overcoming cultural difference and social distance. The last section discusses four research designs that are most adequate for future work along these lines. They take territories, individuals, social classes, institutional fields or event chains instead of ethnic communities as units of analysis and observation.
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