Mainstreaming in response to superdiversity? The governance of migration-related diversity in France, the UK and the Netherlands

Bibliographic Data

ID7350331
AuthorsIlona Van Breugel (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Peter Scholten (0000-0001-5745-9531, Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Year2017
Volume45
Issue4
Pages511-526
Publication date2017-01-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolicy & Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442
PublisherPolicy Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/030557317x14849132401769
OpenAlexW2574175997
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited30

This article examines mainstreaming as a governance strategy in immigrant integration governance. Diversity mainstreaming involves a whole society approach for raising awareness about migrationrelated diversity, mobilising a network of actors to embed diversity across policy areas. Bringing together the literature on superdiversity, policy targeting and governance mainstreaming this article examines empirically whether, and if so, why, and how, mainstreaming is applied as a governance strategy in France, the Netherlands and the UK. Based on a qualitative policy analysis covering the period 2000–14, we find mainstreaming ‘incomplete’ and driven by political and economic motives rather than considerations of superdiversity

Corporate governance · Cultural diversity · Diversity (politics · Economics · Gender mainstreaming · Immigration · Mainstreaming · Management · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Public Administration