This paper presents the main results of a study that relates information from the prison system with information for the Spanish Social Security in order to study the employability of the former inmates of prisons in ...

In this paper I analyse the externalization of asylum by means of the establishment of processing centres outside the EU from a comparative legal approach. In light of the EU‟s recent steps towards offshoring, I study the ...

The rejection of the North African community in Spain, chiefly from Morocco, implies one of the primary expressions of racism in the country. This racialisation process relies on visible and stereotypical markers perpetuating ...

This article analyses how intercultural participation and segregation are interconnected within urban intercultural governance through a review of the literature. It examines how cultural initiatives, particularly, cultural ...

In this chapter, after pointing out the different logics that lie behind the familiar ideas of democracy and federalism, I have dealt with the case of plurinational federal democracies. Having put forward a double criterion ...

The debate on the tyrannical consequences of direct democratic rule on minority rights is almost as old as democracy itself. Yet, it has regained considerable vigour in recent years, as the ‘plebiscitarian turn’ widely ...

In this paper, we investigate how the gendered origin of migrant networks (i.e. matrilineal vs. patrilineal) is associated with aspirations to migrate and subsequent migration behavior. Using longitudinal data from the ...

Individuals' life chances in the future will very much depend on how we invest in our children now. An optimal human capital model would combine a high mean with minimal variance of skills. It is well-established that early ...

Integration as concept is becoming contested. Simultaneously, there is an increasing focus on the role of the receiving society for achieving a higher degree of integration of immigrants. This paper investigates whether ...