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Narratives and Practices of Migrant and Minority Incorporation in European Societies Contested Diversity and Fractured Belongings
This book explores the disjuncture that emerges at various levels in European diversity management policies and their translation into practice.
It shows that state-wide strategies can only guide diversification outcomes, not wholly control them, and in practice, national level integration policies rely on multi-level involvement including authorities at regional or local levels and civil society organisations. The book demonstrates a complex and varied picture of the ways in which different European countries engage with ethnic diversity, as well as to the internal (in)consistency of the philosophical underpinnings of this engagement. As such, it draws attention not just to ways in which diversity "is done," but illuminates processes and narratives which are messy, contested, and contradictory.
This book is of key interest to scholars, students, and practitioners involved in integration, ethnic and cultural diversity studies, migration and immigration, citizenship, ethnicity, and more broadly to European studies, and the wider social sciences.
Part I: Diversity Management in Europe: What are the issues at stake?
1. Introduction: Narratives and Practices of Migrant and Minority Incorporation in European Societies
Zenia Hellgren, Alexander Gamst Page, and Thomas Sealy
2. Individualised Integration and Contractual Civic Integration Policies: A Dutch Case Study
Tamar de Waal
3. Challenges to National Frameworks of Minority Integration in Western Europe: Minority Accommodation, Transnationalism and Dual Citizenship
Erdem Dikici
Part II: Interrogating policy, narratives and practices
4. Multiculturalism and Interculturalism: Views from the Local
Thomas Sealy, Pier-Luc Dupont, and Tariq Modood
5. The Absence of Race in the Intercultural Narrative: An Anti-Racist Gaze at the Catalan Education System
Zenia Hellgren
6. Paradoxes of Multiculturalism in Retrospect and Prospect: Remodelling Sweden
Aleksandra Ålund, Carl-Ulrik Schierup, and Magnus Dahlstedt
Part III: Whose belonging?
7. A Folk Psychological Analysis of Migration-Related Narratives in Bulgaria: Who Gets to Belong?
Leda Kuneva and Maria Stoyanova
8. Transethnic Migrant Activism and Commoning in Trondheim
Agata Kochaniewicz
9. The Instrumental Use of Incorporation Philosophies in a Multicultural Norway: Becoming Norwegian or Running in Place?
Alexander Gamst Page and Sobh Chahboun
10. Undocumented Unaccompanied Migrant Youth from Afghanistan in Sweden: Belonging as the Right to Exist
Mehrdad Darvishpour and Nicole Nunez Borgman
Biography
Zenia Hellgren is Doctor of Sociology and Senior Researcher and Lecturer in Social & Political Theory and Migration Studies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Alexander Gamst Page is Associate Professor of Social Work specialising in migration, integration and diversity at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.
Thomas Sealy is Lecturer in Ethnicity and Race in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.
