• 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 ...
• Manifesto for City governance of Mediterranean migration: executive summary of the EUMedMi international symposium 2022

  EuroMedMig-GRITIM-UPF (2022-12)

  This report is the result of collaborative work by the Office team and the Jean Monnet Network project coordinator. The co-director of EuroMedMig and the members of the Scientific Committee were also directly involved by ...
• 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 ...
• The external relations of mediterranean cities with civil society organisations in migration governance

  Casanovas i Oliveres, Aida (2022-11)

  Following the attention brought by a ‘local turn’ (Zapata-Barrero, Caponio & Scholten, 2017) and multi-level migration governance theory, this paper aims to prove that city diplomacy does not describe well the decoupling ...
• Migrations, media, and stereotypes: cities in France and the Mediterranean area after 1945

  Gastaut, Yvan (2022-10)
• Irregular migration: the position of Türkiye in the Mediterranean basin

  Altiok, Birce; Içduygu, Ahmet (2022-09)
• The character and consequences of everyday anti-gypsyism: experiences of discrimination among Roma men and women in the Barcelona area: final project report

  Hellgren, Zenia (2022-05-31)

  El proyecto de investigación-acción AGREP-Programa de Acción para la Denuncia Efectiva del Antigitanismo y la Discriminación, liderado por el grupo de investigación GRITIM-UPF de la Universidad Pompeu ...
• “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 ...
• Cosmopolitanism and Mediterranean cities

  Gastaut, Yvan (2022-04)

  What place is given to foreigners and migrants in the cities of the Mediterranean basin? At a time of radicalism and withdrawal, rethinking common values on the different shores is becoming an urgent necessity. In this ...
• Everyday antigypsyism: diagnosis and avenues to fight it - Antigitanismo cotidiano: diagnóstico y vías para combatirlo - Antigitanisme quotidià: diagnòstic i vies per a combatre-ho

  Hellgren, Zenia; Gabrielli, Lorenzo (2022-04-05)

  This policy brief is based upon the results of our project AGREP which we implemented in collaboration with FAGIC (The Federation of Roma Associations in Catalonia), with the support of the OND (Barcelona City Council’s ...
• New patterns of migration in the Mediterranean: North-South: the case of Morocco

  Ismaili Idrissi, Boutaina (2021-12)
• Policy conversations across the Mediterranean: migratory governance. Europe and Lebanon in the spotlight

  Aubarell, Gemma; Geha, Carmen (2021-12)
• Rafah border: between terrorism, exogenous and endogenous pressures

  El Kordy, Mostafa Mohamed (2021-12)

  This working paper tackles border control policies in Egypt, focusing on Rafah border, possibly one of the most complex in the region and also in the entire world. Furthermore, I analyze the possible relation between the ...
• The impact of international remittances on poverty: evidence from the southern and eastern Mediterranean

  Ismaili Idrissi, Boutaina; Kawkaba, Sara (2021-11)

  Workers Remittances represent an important source of financing for recipient countries to the extent that it exceeds sometimes foreign direct investment (FDI) flows. International remittances flowing into developing economies ...
• 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 ...
• Migration policies of North African countries towards third country citizens

  Boubakri, Hassen (2021-09)

  This Policy Paper summarizes the Tunisia National workshop held online on 11 November 2020. The purpose of this workshop was to analyze the migration policies applied by North African third countries to nationals of other ...
• Predicting measurement error variance in social surveys

  Oberski, Daniel L.; DeCastellarnau, Anna (2021-09)

  Social science commonly studies relationships among variables by employing survey questions. Answers to these questions will contain some degree of measurement error, distorting the relationships of interest. Such distortions ...
• 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 ...

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