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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Penninx, Rinus
• Martiniello, Marco

Titel

Integration Processes and [local] Policies: Status of the Issue Lessons to Be Learned

Ist Teil von

• Revista española de investigaciones sociológicas, 2006-10 (116), p.123-156

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The article starts out from some general observations regarding integration processes, their conceptualization, & the lessons to be drawn from the empirical data contained in the UNESCO-MOST project 'Modes of Citizenship & Multicultural Policies in European Cities'. We are convinced that any integration policy should be based on a systematic, exhaustive knowledge of processes of integration & exclusion, because if policymakers are to influence or guide such processes, they need a clear overview of which instruments they can potentially use to intervene, & at what stage of the process or at what points in time they should do so. Such knowledge will provide a solid basis for policymaking, but it is not enough. The process of policymaking & policy implementation has its own logic, which does not necessarily run parallel to the logic of integration processes. This why we return to some basic notions of this logic in a second section. In the third section we gradually zoom in on what happens at a local level & on the ways that cities mayor may not attempt to influence integration processes by deliberate & systematic interventions. We describe the wide diversity of such local policies, but we also consider whether or not it is possible to see convergence over time. At the end of the essay we return to national-level policies on immigration & integration, which serve as an ever-present, though not determinant, context for immigrant integration processes in general & for local integration policies in particular. We discuss the relations between EU, national & local policies & their possible future development. References. Adapted from the source document.