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    Understanding the diversity of local diversities:an analysis of the (mis)match between policies and diversity configurations in Dutch municipalities

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    This study examines the relation between local diversity configurations and policies in a selection of Dutch city case studies. Firstly, we identify distinct diversity configurations in Dutch cities, based on a quantitative analysis of 388 municipalities. Subsequently, we conduct a qualitative in-depth study of local policies on migration-related diversity in 10 cities representing specific diversity configurations, to assess the fit between the characteristics in some selected cities and the policy responses. Our study substantiates what has been described in the literature on the local turn in migration studies; the ‘local dimension’ of migration-related diversities and policies reveal a plurality of approaches rather than a one-size-fits-all local model. Differences in urban diversity configurations are reflected in urban policy in specific ways. We also found that inequalities and segregation mattered in terms of the problematization of integration and the choice of policy approach. Our analysis reveals a relationship or ‘match’ between specific urban diversities and specific urban policies. Based on these matches, we propose a fourfold typology of urban diversity policies. Thus, the article seeks to contribute to a differentiated understanding of the multilevel complexity of diversities at the local level.</p

    Mainstreaming van integratiebeleid: een beleidsreactie op superdiversiteit?

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    Waar modellen voor integratiebeleid van oudsher gebaseerd zijn op traditionele en duidelijk gemarkeerde migrantengroepen, verwijst de recente discussie rondom superdiversiteit (Vertovec, 2007) juist naar multidimensionale verschuivingen in migratiepatronen en de sterk toegenomen diversiteit tussen groepen onderling en van de samenleving als geheel (Vertovec, 2007; Meissner & Vertovec, 2015). Beschouwd vanuit deze superdiversiteitsleer wordt beleid gericht op traditionele migrantendoelgroepen gezien als een simplificatie van de diversiteit binnen en tussen migrantengroepen. Daarnaast roept de diversificatie van de samenleving als geheel vragen op over de richting en invulling van integratiebeleid gericht op bijvoorbeeld assimilatie, aangezien de samenleving zelf ook sterk verandert als gevolg van migratie (Crul, 2016). Hoe verhoudt deze oproep tot het in acht nemen van het multidimensionele karakter van diversiteit zich tot de platte praktijk van beleidsmaatregelen op het gebied van integratie en migratiediversiteit

    Understanding the diversity of local diversities:an analysis of the (mis)match between policies and diversity configurations in Dutch municipalities

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    This study examines the relation between local diversity configurations and policies in a selection of Dutch city case studies. Firstly, we identify distinct diversity configurations in Dutch cities, based on a quantitative analysis of 388 municipalities. Subsequently, we conduct a qualitative in-depth study of local policies on migration-related diversity in 10 cities representing specific diversity configurations, to assess the fit between the characteristics in some selected cities and the policy responses. Our study substantiates what has been described in the literature on the local turn in migration studies; the ‘local dimension’ of migration-related diversities and policies reveal a plurality of approaches rather than a one-size-fits-all local model. Differences in urban diversity configurations are reflected in urban policy in specific ways. We also found that inequalities and segregation mattered in terms of the problematization of integration and the choice of policy approach. Our analysis reveals a relationship or ‘match’ between specific urban diversities and specific urban policies. Based on these matches, we propose a fourfold typology of urban diversity policies. Thus, the article seeks to contribute to a differentiated understanding of the multilevel complexity of diversities at the local level.</p

    Towards a typology of local migration diversity policies

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    This paper contributes to the migration studies literature by a comparative analysis of local migration diversity governance in large, mid-sized and small cities, analysing the broader scope of the local dimension of migration-diversity policies. While a ‘local turn’ has taken place in migration studies over the past two decades, the literature has primarily focused on capital and gateway cities. Yet immigrants arrive and settle in a much wider range of cities. Little is known about what forms migration-diversity governance across cities of different sizes and positions. This paper therefore conducts a comparative analysis of migration diversity governance across the local dimension. Based on a qualitative, comparative analysis of migration diversity policies in 16 Dutch municipalities between 2014 and 2018, I distinguish between different local migration diversity policy approaches: ‘proactive pluralist’, ‘proactive monist’, ‘reactive embedded’ and ‘reactive one-domain’. This illustrates the variety of local approaches to migration diversity and thus argues against ‘a local dimension’ of migration diversity governance, rather arguing for different types of local approaches. The proactive cities explicitly chose their own framing for their migration diversity policies, in contradiction to the supposed ‘paradigmatic’ character of the local level, instead showing that cities position their own framing of migration diversity. The types of migration diversity policies I distinguish provide an analytical framework and starting point for further research on the variety of local migration diversity approaches

    Mainstreaming or retrenchment? Migration-related diversity in Dutch and Flemish education policies

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    This article analyses how states adapt generic policies to the increasing diversity that characterises contemporary European societies. More particularly, it zooms in on how migration-related diversity is mainstreamed into education policies in the Netherlands and Flanders and why we observe different policy trends in these two cases. We find that the focus on migration-related diversity largely faded in Dutch education policies in the period from 2000 to 2014. In Flanders, this trend towards ‘migration-related diversity retrenchment’ is less prevalent during this period, even though a similar evolution has started to take place more recently. These findings present a puzzle, as the most evident explanation for diversity retrenchment, namely the increasing politicisation of migration and diversity, cannot account for this difference since the Netherlands and Flanders are characterised by similar degrees of politicisation of migration-related diversity. Our findings thus call for an exploration of underemphasised explanations for diversity retrenchment. We show that the diverging degree of diversity retrenchment can be explained by the presence or absence of a sub-state nationalist project and diverging degrees of neoliberal retrenchment policies. Sub-state nationalism seems to have temporarily offered a buffer against the neoliberal retrenchment of migration-related diversity.</p
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