Immigrant-host model
Template:Unreviewed Subject of my article is ... Immigrant-host model was an approach that developed in postwar sociology to explain the new patterns of immigration and racial inequality. It explained the racism of hosts as a reaction to the strange cultural traditions of the immigrants which acted as obstacles for their economic advancement and social integration[1]. The model assumed that the disruption immigration caused to stability would be solved by the cultural assimilation of immigrants into the dominant culture. Since the 1970s, however, these assumptions have been increasingly discarded in the sociology of race relations. The predictions of the model that the immigrant's children would gradually assimilate and, thus, that racism and racial inequality would cease proved false. The model was criticized and blamed of reflecting and, even, reinforcing the racist assumptions by describing the cultures of immigrants as social problems and ignoring the role structural inequality plays in their subjugation.[2] Today, sociology has instead adopted a "salad bowl" model instead of a "melting pot" one, encouraging diversity and multiculturalism, as opposed to assimilation and cohesion.[3]
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