- An act or instance of excluding
- The state of being excluded
Synonyms: rejection; exception; interdiction
dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/exclusion (accessed February 14, 2012)
- The act of preventing somebody/something from entering a place or taking part in something
- A person or thing that is not included in something
- The act of deciding that something is not possible
Opposite: inclusion
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/exclusion (accessed March 21, 2012)
“The failure of society to provide certain individuals and groups with those rights and benefits normally available to its members, such as employment, adequate housing, health care, education and training, etc.”
Dictionary.com, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/social+exclusion?s=t (accessed on March 27, 2012)
French translation: Exclusion sociale
The term used in a sentence:
“the adoption of immigrant-exclusionary reforms in the Netherlands does not follow the logic of a balancing act between economic imperatives for reform and democratic opposition to retrenchment. Instead, it is driven by ideological motivations and is mostly frustrated by (inter)national legal prohibitions on discrimination and human right violations. “
Koning, Edward Anthony, “The Sudden Surge of Selective Solidarity: Understanding the Exclusion of Immigrants from the Dutch Welfare State”, Paper prepared for 2012 Council of European Studies conference, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
“Recent policy debates and action on ‘social cohesion’ and ‘integration’ in the field of immigration have prompted some observers to comment on the return of exclusionary nation-centered citizenship projects in Europe.”
Soysal, Yasemin N., “Citizenship, immigration, and the European social project: rights and obligations of individuality” (2012) 63 The British Journal of Sociology, 1–21.
Cross Border Welfare State, Immigration, Social Security and Integration, http://www.crossborderwelfare.nl/, (accessed on March 27, 2012).
European Social Charter, http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/socialcharter/presentation/aboutcharter_EN.asp? (accessed on March 27, 2012).
Vonk, Gijsbert and Sarah Van Walsum, “Access denied; towards a new approach to social protection for formally excluded migrants”. Cross Border Welfare State – Immigration Social Security and Integration, Chapter 1, 44. Available from: http://www.rechten.vu.nl/nl/Images/Chapter1_VonkVanWalsum_tcm22-261270.pdf (accessed on March 27, 2012).
Barrett, Alan and Yvonne McCarthy, Immigrants and welfare programmes: exploring the interactions between immigrant characteristics, immigrant welfare dependence, and welfare policy, (2008) 24(3) Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 542-559.
Bosniak, Linda, The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of the Contemporary Membership, Princeton University Press, 2008, 222.
Koning, Edward Anthony, “The Sudden Surge of Selective Solidarity: Understanding the Exclusion of Immigrants from the Dutch Welfare State”, Paper prepared for 2012 Council of European Studies conference, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Koning, Edward Anthony, “The Real and Perceived Economics of Immigration: Welfare Chauvinism and Immigrants’ Use of Government Transfers in Twelve Countries”, Paper prepared for 2011 Canadian Political Science Association conference, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Schotel, Bas, ‘Inclusion for the Sake of Exclusion: Legal Authority of Immigration Laws’, in: J. P. Burgess an Serge Gutwirth, A Threat against Europe? Security, Migration and Integration, VUBPress Brussels 2011, 153-169.
Soysal, Yasemin N., “Citizenship, immigration, and the European social project: rights and obligations of individuality” (2012) 63 The British Journal of Sociology, 1–21.
Wray-Lake, Laura, Syvertsen, Amy K. And Constance A. Flanagan, “Contested Citizenship and Social Exclusion: Adolescent Arab American Immigrants’ Views of the Social Contract” (2008) 12:2 Applied Developmental Science, 84-92.
Cheong, Pauline Hope, Edwards, Rosalind, Goulbourne, Harry and John Solomos, Immigration, social cohesion and social capital: A critical review, (February 2007) 27 Critical Social Policy February, 24-49.