Managing contemporary diversity II: Trends in integration policy from the national to the local level

26 Março 2021, 16:00 • Jennifer Leigh Mcgarrigle Montezuma de Carvalho

Managing contemporary diversity II: Trends in integration policy from the national to the local level

Key questions explored in the theory class:
1.Why have most “national models” in Western Europe been criticized and accused of failing?  2.Why is diversity increasingly portrayed as negative at the national level and positive at the local level?  (Interculturalism)  3.How does the local level offer opportunities for the inclusion of migrants? What are the benefits of diversity for the city?

Beyond national models: move to neo assimilationism
Civic integration as a dominant approach
‘Local turn’ in integration policy
Intercultural/ diversity turn
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 • Ricard Zapata-Barrero (2016) Exploring the foundations of the intercultural policy paradigm: a comprehensive approach, Identities, 23:2, 155-173, DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2015.100652 • Scholten, Peter, and Rinus Penninx. (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