• Exploring the nexus between intercultural participation and segregation through an urban intercultural governance lens

  Marcucci, Diletta (2024)

  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 ...
• Territorial dynamics and local reception of the asylum seekers in rural spaces and small towns

  Arfaoui, Rafik; Roth, Hélène; Lécuyer, Joséphine (2024-07)

  Since the “long summer of migration” in 2015, the reception of asylum seekers in France has increasingly depended on non-metropolitan areas, which have expanded their reception capacities. These areas, often considered ...
• Everyday racism in everyday life: experiences of racist Interactions in shared-cohabited spaces in Barcelona

  Rodríguez-Reche, Cristina (2023)

  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 ...
• From acting to activism: unveiling the construction of the distant sufferer: a critical analysis of celebrity advocacy’s representation of the distant sufferer

  Pennington, Madeleine; Rodríguez-Reche, Cristina (2023-10-02)

  This paper delves into the convergence of racialisation and feminisation within the framework of Celebrity Advocacy (CA) as it relates to the portrayal of distant sufferers. While previous discussions of CA have explored ...
• Diversity mainstreaming through intercultural opening in policy and practice

  Müller, Carolin (2023-03-28)

  Diversity management gradually gains significance regarding recent migrations and growing hostility in Germany’s urban societies. In the state of Saxony, where right-wing extremism is on the rise, cultural and social ...
• A case study on the revitalisation of shrinking Spain: migrant reception in rural areas

  Egea, Iris (2022)

  This paper builds upon the growing European political interest in countering rural areas’ depopulation and shrinking trends through rural immigration. Since rural areas’ peripheral characteristics ...
• Urban asylum policy in openly conflicting, decoupled migration governance: the case of Barcelona

  Mazza, Jenna (2022)

  This paper uses Barcelona’s Nausica asylum seeker integration program to understand 1) what leads local governments to diverge from national policy on migration issues within decoupled, openly conflicting governance ...
• “Unscrupulous people posing as children”: the problematisation of unaccompanied children in UK Home Office policy discourse

  Clifford, Isabel (2022)

  This article builds upon the premise that the Home Office holds the most significant power over constructing policy truthsabout unaccompanied children in the UK. This discursive creation of policy truthsconveys a ...
• Welcoming meaning(s): values circulation between citizens and institutions about migrants’ reception in Barcelona

  Hombert, Louise (2021)

  This paper aims to analyse the circulation of welcoming values between local institutions and the civil society, regarding asylum seekers and refugees’ reception between 2015 and 2020. What values are promoted by the ...
• Debordering processes and resilient ontological security at the city level: the case study of Barcelona in perspective

  Zapata Barrero, Ricard (2021)

  Staying within the debate, which links border studies and migration studies, my purpose is to conceptualise a focus that connects two heuristic approaches: ontological security and urban resilience. I will follow the ...
• Representations of ethnic diversity: the role of public institutions for inclusionary citizenship practices

  Hellgren, Zenia (2021)

  This paper takes the case of Catalonia to inquire into how ethnic diversity is represented in the public institutions, considering both pro-diversity agendas and the actual presence of people from diverse origins in different ...
• Governing diversity in Europe’s plural spaces : a path to new normativities

  Fossum, John Erik; Kastoryano, Riva; Modood, Tariq; Zapata Barrero, Ricard (2020)

  The question of how to reconcile diversity and integration has occupied public debates, political agendas and social sciences for decades. This WP provides a brief outline of how the project Negotiating Diversity in Expanded ...
• Immigrants and native families in schools : reconciling trust and diversity

  Prokic, Mina (2020)

  This paper explores what the main perceptions of immigrant families are by native families and how these reflect in their trust in public schools. It reviews the existing literature on immigration and the main concepts of ...
• Sub-state identities and immigrant integration policies : the cases of Andalusia and Catalonia

  Marano, Luca (2020)

  Fitting in the line of research that brings together the politics of minority nationalism and that of immigrant multiculturalism, the present paper tries to answer the following research question: To what extent does the ...
• El desafío de la democracia y la ciudadanía multicultural en Argentina

  Cantón Gardes, Damián Andrés (2020)

  La democracia y la ciudadanía multicultural y, en forma especial, la ‘otredad’ se presentan como las responsabilidades en términos de convivencia a nivel nacional, regional e incluso global. Sin embargo, en Argentina aún ...
• Qualitative migration research ethics : mapping the core challenges

  Zapata Barrero, Ricard; Yalaz, Evren (2019)

  When conducting qualitative research, migration scholars are often confronted with particular ethical issues. Since migration researchers often work on vulnerable, hard-to-reach, and sensitive populations, the protection ...
• Assembling borders, territory and human rights in migration management policies

  Reviglio, Martino (2019)

  The EU is facing a migration management dilemma. The compromise between inclusion and exclusion developed by the European Court of Human Rights failed to guarantee human rights obligations and security challenges. This ...
• Challenging Narratives of ‘Native Flight’ in a Small Town. Reflections on Moral Economies and Space

  Lundsteen, Martin (2019)

  Taking its point of departure in the case of Salt, a small town located next to Girona (Catalonia), this paper analyses the everyday negotiation of the emerging „superdiverse‟ reality outside the metropolis, yielding a ...
• EU asylum offshoring: an analysis of the limits imposed by European Human Rights Standards. Can the European Union copy Australia in the offshoring of the asylum function?

  Calvo Sierra, Ana (2018)

  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 ...
• Refugee protests in hotspots : a first comparison between Lampedusa and Lesbos

  Guida, Alessandra (2018)

  In contrast with the narrative of voiceless refugees, this working paper shows the political agency of refugees in hotspots. The hotspot approach was introduced by the EU in 2015 to formerly alleviate pressure from Greece ...

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