Documents de recerca, en accés obert, com ara working papers, informes de recerca, memòries tècniques, etc., del Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials de la UPF.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...