Assessing the Inclusion of Citizens of Immigrant Origin in National Parliaments in Europe

Abstract

This panel examines the incorporation of Citizens of Immigrant Origin to national parliaments across eight European democracies (Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK). The papers focus on descriptive and substantive representation and on the various contextual and individual factors that help us understand variation in the levels and patterns of political representation across these countries

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Systems of Immigrant Incorporation and Descriptive Political Representation	View Paper Details
Visibility, integration models and political representation	View Paper Details
Dissecting patterns of intersectionality: gender, ethnicity and religion in the political representation of citizens of immigrant origin	View Paper Details
Substantive Representation and CIO MPs: Topic Models and Sentiment Analysis of Legislative Speech	View Paper Details