Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Superdiversity, Policy and Governance in Europe
- Chapter One Managing Superdiversity? Examining the Intercultural Policy Turn in Europe
- Chapter Two Mainstreaming in Response to Superdiversity? The Governance of Migration-Related Diversity in France, The UK and the Netherlands
- Chapter Three Making the Most of Superdiversity: Notes on the Potential of a New Approach
- Chapter Four Superdiversity and Sub-National Autonomous Regions: Perspectives from the South Tyrolean Case
- Chapter Five Transmigration: The Rise of Flexible Migration Strategies as Part of Superdiversity
- Chapter Six Superdiversity, Multiculturalism and Local Policies: A Study on European Cities
- Chapter Seven Integrating Superdiversity in Urban Governance: The Case of Inner-city Lisbon
- Chapter Eight Urban Planning and the Challenge of Superdiversity
- Chapter Nine Superdiversity in the Post-Industrial City: A Comparative Analysis of Backlash Narratives in Six European Neighbourhoods
- Index
Chapter Two - Mainstreaming in Response to Superdiversity? The Governance of Migration-Related Diversity in France, The UK and the Netherlands
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 March 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Superdiversity, Policy and Governance in Europe
- Chapter One Managing Superdiversity? Examining the Intercultural Policy Turn in Europe
- Chapter Two Mainstreaming in Response to Superdiversity? The Governance of Migration-Related Diversity in France, The UK and the Netherlands
- Chapter Three Making the Most of Superdiversity: Notes on the Potential of a New Approach
- Chapter Four Superdiversity and Sub-National Autonomous Regions: Perspectives from the South Tyrolean Case
- Chapter Five Transmigration: The Rise of Flexible Migration Strategies as Part of Superdiversity
- Chapter Six Superdiversity, Multiculturalism and Local Policies: A Study on European Cities
- Chapter Seven Integrating Superdiversity in Urban Governance: The Case of Inner-city Lisbon
- Chapter Eight Urban Planning and the Challenge of Superdiversity
- Chapter Nine Superdiversity in the Post-Industrial City: A Comparative Analysis of Backlash Narratives in Six European Neighbourhoods
- Index
Summary
Introduction
Superdiversity challenges traditional modes of governance regarding migration-related diversity. It refers to multidimensional shifts in migration patterns (Vertovec, 2007; Meissner and Vertovec, 2015) that challenge policies directed at specific migrant ‘groups’ that would oversimplify the diversity within and between migrant groups and society. The increasing complexity that superdiversity refers to and the inadvertent effects of policy targeting were core elements of the so-called multiculturalism backlash in many European countries (Vertovec and Wessendorf, 2010). Furthermore, the deepening of diversity that is associated with superdiversity would complicate any policy oriented at the ‘assimilation’ of newcomers into the host society, as this host society itself is being transformed in response to migration as well (Crul, 2016). Although various studies have shown that superdiversity demands a rethinking of governance responses and government policies (Vertovec, 2007; Crul, 2016; Phillimore, 2015), little is known about what form or forms of governance and policy would best fit situations of superdiversity.
This chapter examines whether, and if so, how and why, governance mainstreaming forms a suitable policy response to situations of superdiversity. The concept of governance refers to problem-solving strategies that are developed and implemented in complex networks of actors (Teisman et al, 2009), including but certainly not limited to government institutions and government policies (Colebatch, 2009; Wimmer and Schiller, 2003). The concept of governance mainstreaming has been developed more broadly in other areas such as gender, disability and environmental governance (Dalal-Clayton and Bass, 2009; Nunan et al, 2012; Priestley and Roulstone, 2009, 4–5; Verloo, 2005; Walby 2005). Building from this literature we define mainstreaming of migration-related diversity as the effort to embed diversity in a generic approach across policy areas as well as policy levels, to establish a whole-society approach to diversity rather than an approach to specific migrant groups, in complex actor networks.
In this chapter, we analyse patterns in the policy approaches to immigrant integration in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and France from the conceptual lens of governance mainstreaming, and analyse how and why mainstreaming was developed as a governance strategy, and what role superdiversity played in the rationale for and the choice of strategy towards mainstreaming.
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- Superdiversity, Policy and Governance in EuropeMulti-scalar Perspectives, pp. 29 - 49Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2020