Research report 2008 - Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Immigrants in Mainstream Politics: In Germany Still Rare
Authors
Schönwälder, Karen
Departments
Soziokulturelle Vielfalt (Prof. Dr. Steven Vertovec)
MPI zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften, Göttingen
Summary
So far, the integration of immigrants in political decision-making processes is a little researched topic. A project at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity investigates the conditions and development of immigrants’ political careers and shows that the careers of members of parliaments follow different logics in different European states.