Civic inclusion for permanent minorities: thinking through the politics of “ghetto” and “separatism” laws

Over the past twenty years, prominent theorists of citizenship envisaged cosmopolitan openings, re-making national identity, and progressive multicultural change. The paper explores perspectives on civic inclusion in Kymlicka's Multicultural Odysseys, Soysal's Limits Citizenship, Benhabib's Another Cosmopolitanism. It this work light two recent political episodes, formulation an “anti-separatism” law France “anti-ghetto” policies Denmark. contrast tendencies that inclusive envisage with denial associational rights assertion racial logics illustrates blinds spots accounts inclusion, particular reliance a prescriptive account minority post-migrant agency, disembodied logic human rights, limited regard for status differentials inside citizenship.