Narratives and Practices of Migrant and Minority Incorporation in European Societies

This book explores the disjuncture that emerges at various levels in European diversity management policies and their translation into practice.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Narratives and Practices of Migrant and Minority Incorporation in European Societies 2. Individualised Integration and Contractual Civic Integration Policies: A Dutch Case Study 3. Challenges to National Frameworks of Minority Integration in Western Europe: Minority Accommodation, Transnationalism and Dual Citizenship 4. Multiculturalism and Interculturalism: Views from the Local 5. The Absence of Race in the Intercultural Narrative: An Anti-Racist Gaze at the Catalan Education System 6. Paradoxes of Multiculturalism in Retrospect and Prospect: Remodelling Sweden 7. A Folk Psychological Analysis of Migration-Related Narratives in Bulgaria: Who gets to Belong? 8. Transethnic Migrant Activism and Commoning in Trondheim 9. The Instrumental Use of Incorporation Philosophies in a Multicultural Norway: Becoming Norwegian or Running in Place? 10. Undocumented Unaccompanied Migrant Youth from Afghanistan in Sweden: Belonging as the Right to Exist