Sumários

The local level: interculturalism and diversity policies

2 Abril 2025, 13:30 Alina Isabel Pereira Esteves

The intercultural turn: Response to the “multicultural backlash” and its features (promotion of interaction, community building and prejudice reduction, individual rather than a collective approach). The diversity dividend / advantage: territorial competitiveness and cultural innovation in urban governance strategies. Migrant neighbourhoods/ economies as an asset for city branding: examples in Lisbon. Critiques of Interculturalism.

 

References

- Barberis, E.; Grossmann, K.; Kullmann, K.; Skovgaard Nielsen, R. & Hedegaard Winther, A. (2018). Governance arrangements targeting diversity in Europe: how New Public Management impacts working with social cohesion, Urban Geography, DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2018.1511190

- Desille, A. (2019) Revisiting the diversity-urban development nexus: Perspectives from Israeli immigrant towns. Political Geography DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.05.001

- Montezuma, J. & McGarrigle, J. (2018). What motivates international homebuyers? Investor to lifestyle ‘migrants’ in a tourist city, Tourism Geographies,DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2018.1470196

- Oliveira, N. & Padilla, B. (2017). Integrating superdiversity in local governance. The case of Lisbon’s inner-city. Policy and Politics, 2017. doi.org/10.1332/030557317X14835601760639

- Syrett, S., & Sepulveda, L. (2011). Realising the Diversity Dividend: Population Diversity and Urban Economic Development. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 43(2), 487–504. https://doi.org/10.1068/a43185

- Zapata-Barrero, R. (2016). Exploring the foundations of the intercultural policy paradigm: a comprehensive approach, Identities, 23:2, 155-173, DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2015.100652

 

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Group presentation of two texts chosen by the lecturers pertaining to section 5 of the syllabus.

28 Março 2025, 15:30 Alina Isabel Pereira Esteves

Group presentation of two texts chosen by the lecturers pertaining to section 5 of the syllabus.

The groups that presented were composed by Laura Oliveira and Maria Kagan (text by Graauw & Vermeulen, 2016 ), and by Marta Castro, Madalaena Castro e Shirley Silva (text by Pisarevskaya & Scholten, 2022).

 

References

Els de Graauw & Floris Vermeulen (2016). Cities and the politics of immigrant integration: a comparison of Berlin, Amsterdam, New York City, and San Francisco, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42:6, 989-1012, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2015.1126089

Asya Pisarevskaya and Peter Scholten (2022). Cities of Migration, in P. Scholten (ed.), Introduction to Migration Studies, IMISCOE Research Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92377-8_16

 

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Group presentation of two texts chosen by the lecturers pertaining to section 5 of the syllabus.

28 Março 2025, 13:30 Alina Isabel Pereira Esteves

Group presentation of two texts chosen by the lecturers pertaining to section 5 of the syllabus.

The groups that presented were composed by Leonor Ferreira, Renato Silva, Guilherme Medalha and Ana Carolina Milhano (text by Graauw & Vermeulen, 2016 ), and by Pedro Melo, Leandro Ernesto, Martin Miladinov and Filipa Vida Larga (text by Pisarevskaya & Scholten, 2022)

 

References

Els de Graauw & Floris Vermeulen (2016). Cities and the politics of immigrant integration: a comparison of Berlin, Amsterdam, New York City, and San Francisco, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42:6, 989-1012, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2015.1126089

Asya Pisarevskaya and Peter Scholten (2022). Cities of Migration, in P. Scholten (ed.), Introduction to Migration Studies, IMISCOE Research Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92377-8_16

 

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5. Migrant integration: the local level.

26 Março 2025, 13:30 Alina Isabel Pereira Esteves

Trends in integration policy from the national to the local level. The move to neo assimilationism and civic integration as a dominant approach. The local "turn": features and implications for governance.

 

References

Bosswick, Wolfgang; Heckmann, Friedrich (2006). Social integration of immigrants: Contribution of local and regional authorities. Dublin, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.

Graauw, Els de; Vermeulen, Floris (2016). Cities and the politics of immigrant integration: a comparison of Berlin, Amsterdam, New York City, and San Francisco, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42:6, 989-1012, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2015.1126089

Scholten, Peter; Penninx, Rinus (2016). The Multilevel Governance of Migration and Integration. In Integration Processes and Policies in Europe: Contexts, Levels and Actors, edited by Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas and Rinus Penninx, 91–108. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319- 21674-4_6.

Zapata-Barrero, Ricard  (2016). Exploring the foundations of the intercultural policy paradigm: a comprehensive approach, Identities, 23:2, 155-173, DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2015.100652

Link to the moodle platform: https://elearning.ulisboa.pt/course/view.php?id=10421   


Group presentation of two texts chosen by the lecturers pertaining to section 5 of the syllabus.

21 Março 2025, 15:30 Alina Isabel Pereira Esteves

Group presentation of a text chosen by the lecturers pertaining to section 5 of the syllabus.

The group that presented was composed by Miguel Sanchéz-Rico, Julia Skiba and Dominika Lizis (text from Choquet).

 

References

Choquet, S. (2017)._Modes of integration in Europe, European issues, n°449, 30th October 2017. Foundation Robert Schuman.

Heath, A. F.; Schneider, S. L. (2021). Migrant integration in Western Europe, Frontiers in Sociology, doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2021.510987

 

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