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Narratives and Practices of Migrant and Minority Incorporation in European Societies: Contested Diversity and Fractured Belongings book cover

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Narratives and Practices of Migrant and Minority Incorporation in European Societies Contested Diversity and Fractured Belongings

Edited By Zenia Hellgren, Alexander Gamst Page, Thomas Sealy Copyright 2025
194 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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.

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