Interculturalism in the post-multicultural debate: a defence
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- dc.contributor.author Zapata Barrero, Ricard
- dc.date.accessioned 2021-02-18T08:59:29Z
- dc.date.available 2021-02-18T08:59:29Z
- dc.date.issued 2017
- dc.description.abstract The main purpose of this article is to formulate a defence of the emerging intercultural policy paradigm for the benefit of those who are still somewhat reluctant to accept its proper place within the current migration-related diversity policy debate. My defence will take two main lines of argumentation: Firstly, I will state that the increasing intensity of the intercultural policy paradigm must be placed in the present-day post-multicultural period, which recognizes the strengths of the multicultural policy paradigm but also the limits to its process for recognizing differences. The role played by the emerging national civic policy paradigm (a renovated version of assimilation), prioritizing duties before rights, will also be considered crucial to better contextualize interculturalism. Secondly, I will try to identify the main distinctive features of interculturalism, which legitimize its proper place within the diversity debate today. Without rejecting rightsbased and duties-based policy approaches, interculturalism places more emphasis on a contacts-based policy approach, aimed at fostering communication and relationships among people from different backgrounds, including national citizens. This approach focuses on common bonds rather than differences. It also views diversity as an advantage and a resource, and centres its policy goals on community cohesion and reframing a common public culture that places diversity within rather than outside the so-called Unity. In reviewing the current literature and the origins of the intercultural policy paradigm, I restate its contribution towards resolving current trends in transnationalism, changing identities, superdiversity and the rise of populist anti-immigrant parties. These are issues the old multicultural project has struggled to deal with, which has provoked the current disillusionment. Lastly, I will propose a research avenue to further consolidate interculturalism as a distinctive and legitimate policy approach.
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- dc.identifier.citation Zapata-Barrero R. Interculturalism in the post-multicultural debate: a defence. Comparative Migration Studies. 2017;5(14):1-23. DOI: 10.1186/s40878-017-0057-z
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40878-017-0057-z
- dc.identifier.issn 2214-8590
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/46516
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher SpringerOpen
- dc.relation.ispartof Comparative Migration Studies. 2017;5(14):1-23
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- dc.subject.keyword Diversity
- dc.subject.keyword Interculturalism
- dc.subject.keyword Public policy
- dc.subject.keyword Xenophobia
- dc.subject.keyword Multiculturalism
- dc.subject.keyword National civic policy
- dc.title Interculturalism in the post-multicultural debate: a defence
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