1st Edition

Diversity in Local Political Practice

Edited By Karen Schönwälder Copyright 2021
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

In what ways do local authorities respond to the increasing socio-cultural heterogeneity of urban populations? While other studies have often focused on policy declarations, the eight chapters in this book provide rich evidence on the content and implementation of local policies. Furthermore, several chapters offer theoretical insights into the factors driving or hindering policies that... Read more

Introduction: Diversity in local political practice

Karen Schönwälder

1. Colour-blind diversity: how the "Diversity Label" reshaped anti-discrimination policies in three French local governments

Laure Bereni, Renaud Epstein and Manon Torres

2. Workforce diversity policies in practice: drivers and barriers in local administrations

Christine Lang

3. The local turn in integration policies: why French cities differ

Anouk Flamant

4. What explains diversity-policy adoption? Policy entrepreneurs and advocacy coalitions in two French cities

Michalis Moutselos

5. Externalization or imitation: the 2015–16 asylum-seeker immigration as a catalyst for local structural change

Miriam Schader

6. A relational approach to local immigrant policy-making: collaboration with immigrant advocacy bodies in French and German cities

Maria Schiller, Julia Martínez-Ariño and Mireia Bolíbar

7. Cultural policies mixing commonality and difference? The case of public libraries in French cities

Alexandre Tandé

8. The accommodation of Muslim body practices in German public swimming pools

Ines Michalowski and Max Behrendt

Biography

Karen Schönwälder is Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany, and Professor of  Political Science at Göttingen University.