Peter Scholten
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 109063 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter Scholten |
| NOMBRES | Peter |
| APELLIDO | Scholten |
| FIRMA | SCHOLTEN P |
| AFILIACIONES | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5745-9531 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 76 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 939 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 6 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 16 |
Beyond the idea of polarization
Superdiversity is challenging conventional policy discourses and policy categories. Whereas legal categories and policies assume clearly demarcated groups, superdiversity helps understand the complex intersectionalities that make up today’s cities. When simplistic categories and discourses meet social complexity, this can feed sentiments of crisis and polarization. This article aims to develop superdiversity as a perspective that helps understand…
The Dutch Migration Obsession
Despite its long history as a migration society, the Netherlands increasingly frames migration as an unprecedented crisis and the central problem of contemporary politics. This article conceptualizes this paradox as a migration obsession: a persistent and emotionally charged fixation on migration that is largely immune to historical knowledge and empirical evidence. Rather than reflecting migration dynamics themselves, this obsession expresses de…
Becoming an Interdisciplinary Discipline? An Analysis of the Development of the Policy Sciences, 1975–2020
Between active citizenship and exploitation
Dutch refugee integration and labor policies promote un(der)paid and low-paid labor by refugees a key pathway for participation. This article draws on an extensive number of interviews with public, non-public and private actors as well as refugees to examine refugees’ experiences with such forms of labor. We find that refugees are often pushed by frontline workers into protracted forms of un(der)paid labor and short-term, low-paid roles that disr…
Cities of Migration
Writing this book has been a long and ambitious journey.Inspired by the works of early pioneers such as Mahnig (2004), Glick Schiller and alar (2009) and Borkert and Caponio (2010), we started our quest to understand 'the diversity of urban diversities' already in 2018.Echoing the work from preceding decades in deconstructing 'national models of integration', we believed there should be a much greater appreciation of variation in local approaches…
Critical transitions in migration studies
In the past decade, dynamic geopolitical events have led to major migration movements worldwide.The launching of Comparative Migration Studies (CMS) in 2013 to promote comparative research in the field of migration studies (Saharso and Scholten, 2013) coincided with some of these major migration developments.The journal emerged at a time when the field was undergoing rapid transformation, incorporating newer methods, geographies and theories to s…
Should I stay or should I go? Navigating contradictory temporal logics in the Dutch asylum system
Why the governance of superdiversity so often derails. A complexity perspective
Are small towns a battleground for migration governance? Negotiating refugee integration in small towns in the Netherlands
A surge in refugee arrivals post-2015 challenged small localities across Europe to respond to 'refugee integration' locally. Existing literature focuses little on governance dynamics in small localities, particularly regarding actors' roles and relations. Based on fieldwork in four Dutch localities, we analyse the involvement of different actor types and explore if/how they develop collaborative relations. We show that small town governments enga…
Rethinking Migration Studies for 2050
Migration is a complex social process not simply a response to development imbalances, or a solution to problems like unemployment, poverty or population aging. As such migration and mobility are shaped by broader processes of globalization, development, technological transformation, urbanization and in turn contribute to shaping those. This collective paper raises and seeks to answer important research and policy questions about migration and so…
Understanding the diversity of local diversities
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 …
The Governance of Superdiversity
This chapter brings a complexity perspective to the governance of superdiversity. Superdiversity as a specific form of social complexity challenges traditional views on policymaking in the area of migration and migration-related diversities. Ideas about societal steering, the role of central government, rationality, and controllability often don’t reflect the reality of complexity, where the role of government is often limited, and societal proce…
Introduction to Migration Studies
This open access textbook provides an introduction to theories, concepts and methodological approaches concerning various facets of migration and migration-related diversities. It starts with an introduction to migration studies and continues with an introductory reading of migration drivers, migration infrastructures, migration flows, and several transversal topics such as gender and migration. It also covers politics, policies and governance as…
Comparative perspectives on migration, diversities and the pandemic
Mainstreaming or retrenchment? Migration-related diversity in Dutch and Flemish education policies
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 fro…
The role of migration in enhancing resilience to climate change
Migration out of areas affected by climate change has long been considered a common adaptation strategy. More recent studies, however, claim that migration should not exclusively be seen as an escape from areas under threat, but that it can also be understood as a powerful strategy towards change and innovation in those areas. This article examines the relationship between environmental stress and migration in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta, o…
Classifying the Diversity of Urban Diversities
This paper provides an empirical classification of migration-related diversities in 166 European cities. The local turn in migration studies has shown that migration-related diversity may take varied forms in different cities. Our understanding of how and why cities differ is lagging behind the wealth of existing conceptualisations. This is partly because most studies look only at one kind of city, in particular, superdiverse global cities. This …
Urban renewal as policy innovation in China
A major policy innovation in China, urban renewal creates an opportunity to promote sustainable inner‐city development and to foster economic growth in an environmentally and culturally sound way, which demands a close investigation of its context, internal and external dynamics, and policy features. Property‐led redevelopment dominated China's urban renewal since the early 1990s, as a result of the market reform and political decentralization. R…
Where I Belong
In the context of super-diverse cities, scholars and policy makers are increasingly interested in the potential of volunteering to establish identification for newcomers and locals alike. In this paper, we address the question of how young volunteers in Rotterdam and Vienna negotiate belonging within their super-diverse surroundings. Our exploratory study builds on a cross-national research project in which we collected qualitative interview data…
Mainstreaming versus Alienation
Re-imagining the city
How do superdiverse cities re-imagine themselves in response to migration-related diversity? Based on a double case study on the branding strategies of two superdiverse Dutch cities, Amsterdam and Rotterdam, this paper shows that although diversity is part of the brand identity in both cities, it is not used prominently in urban planning or brand communications. Migration-related diversity is re-defined strategically (as ‘cosmopolitan’ and ‘inter…
Implementing the integrated water resources management approach in a volcanic river basin
The ways in which integrated water resources management (IWRM) is implemented in a volcanic river basin (the Opak Sub-Basin) on the flanks of Mt Merapi volcano in Indonesia is examined. Data deriving from semi-ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews are analysed through a multilevel governance lens that considers three pillars of management – conservation, utilization and hazard control – and three levels of governance – national, regional…
On uneven internationalisation, disciplinary diversity and interpretation of co-citation analysis
In this rejoinder for this special issue, we enter into dialogue with the various commentaries that our article "Between Fragmentation and Institutionalisation" received. In doing so, we address some of the commonly-identified limitations of our paper and clarify the interpretation of some of our findings. This includes key issues such as the uneven internationalisation of migration studies, the need to reveal a broader variety of disciplinary co…
Between fragmentation and institutionalisation
It is clear that the field of migration studies has grown significantly over the past decades. What is less known is how this growth has taken place. This article combines bibliometric metadata with expert interviews to analyse the institutionalisation of the field in terms of self-referentiality, internationalisation, and epistemic communities. Self-referentiality in migration studies has gradually increased as the field has grown, until recentl…
Towards liveable volcanic cities
Theorizing the ‘local turn’ in a multi-level governance framework of analysis
Agenda dynamics and the multi-level governance of intractable policy controversies
The Role of Narratives in Migration Policy-Making
While debates on migration policy often revolve around rival values and interests, they also invoke knowledge claims about the causes, dynamics and impacts of migration. Such claims are best conceptualised as ‘policy narratives’, setting out beliefs about policy problems and appropriate interventions. Narratives are likely to be more successful where they meet three criteria: they are cognitively plausible, dramatically or morally compelling and,…
Policy learning and policy change
All politics and policy issues involve the accumulation of data about problems and solutions in context of social interactions. Drawing on these data, policy actors acquire, translate, and disseminate new information and knowledge toward achieving political endeavors and for revising or strengthening their policy-related beliefs over time. ‘Policy learning’ is a concept that refers to this cognitive and social dynamic. Articles in this special is…
Two Worlds Apart
Immigrant integration has become an intractable policy controversy in the Netherlands. One facet of this controversy involves the different ways in which immigrant integration has been framed by national and local governments. National government has formulated a “citizenship approach” to immigrant integration, whereas local governments often chose a more accommodative approach to migrant groups. In this article, the authors argue that this discr…
Multilevel governance from below
Intra-EU mobility’ from new member states provides a governance challenge to European countries like the Netherlands. Freedom of movement within the EU enables mobility but also has important social consequences at the urban level in particular. This article discusses to what extent local, national and European governments have interacted in the governance of ‘intra-EU movement’ and how this has affected their policies regarding migrants from Cen…
Mapping migration studies
Migration studies have developed rapidly as a research field over the past decades. This article provides an empirical analysis not only on the development in volume and the internationalization of the field, but also on the development in terms of topical focus within migration studies over the past three decades. To capture volume, internationalisation, and topic focus, our analysis involves a computer-based topic modelling of the landscape of …
Deconstructing the Dutch multicultural model
A Local Dimension of Integration Policies? A Comparative Study of Berlin, Malmö, and Rotterdam
This study examines three theses on local integration policies by a qualitative comparative case study of integration policies in three cities in three different countries (Berlin, Malmö, and Rotterdam). We found little evidence of a congruent local dimension of integration policies. Local policies resemble their national policy frameworks fairly well in terms of policy approaches and domains. Our multi-level perspective shows that this is not th…
Mainstreaming versus alienation
Why do processes of policymaking on migration and (migration-related) diversity so often seem ‘out of control’? This article proposes a new conceptual framework for understanding the role of complexity in the governance of migration and diversity. Complexity literature argues that complex problems like migration and diversity require complex approaches. However, migration literature shows that policy processes in these areas often fail to capture…
Mainstreaming migrant integration? A critical analysis of a new trend in integration governance
In the academic literature, mainstreaming is conceptualized as a shift in policy focus (from specific to generic), as well as in governance (from state-centric to poly-centric). Whereas mainstreaming has been applied in various areas, such as gender, disability and environment, a more recent application concerns migrant integration, which has so far been under-studied in academic circles. This article provides a critical analysis of mainstreaming…
The intra-EU mobility regime
This article analyses the contested nature of the contemporary intra-EU mobility regime after the EU enlargement of 2004 and 2007. Migration from the new EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has evolved into one of the main migration flows within Europe, especially to Northern and Western European countries. We will analyse three dimensions of the contested nature of the intra-EU mobility regime. Firstly, we show that the current …
Between fragmentation and institutionalisation
It is clear that the field of migration studies has grown significantly over the past decades. What is less known is how this growth has taken place. This article combines bibliometric metadata with expert interviews to analyse the institutionalisation of the field in terms of self-referentiality, internationalisation, and epistemic communities. Self-referentiality in migration studies has gradually increased as the field has grown, until recentl…
The political flow of wisdom
This paper deals with the different roles that scientific knowledge can play in shaping and redefining policy images, focusing on two quite distinct policy fields in The Netherlands: immigrant policy and assisted reproductive technology policy. Interactions between policy-makers and scientific experts are linked to processes of negative and positive feedback in which a policy monopoly is maintained or attacked. We show how science and the structu…
Analysing Local Policy Agendas
This article provides an analysis of the allocation of attention to policy problems on the local level, focusing on the executive agenda of six municipalities in the Netherlands over a 25-year period. It reveals that there is specifically a local politics of attention, showing differences between national and local policy agendas in specific policy areas. We did not find evidence that the political composition of the local executive coalitions le…
Bonding, bridging and ethnic minorities in the Netherlands
The discourse on the integration of ethnic minorities in the Netherlands has undergone profound changes over the past few decades. This article analyses how discourses in politics and academia have revolved around changing emphases upon the social capital processes of ‘bonding’ of individuals within groups and ‘bridging’ of individuals to the wider society. Four episodes of discourse and policy may be distinguished: denial of being a country of i…
What are sources of carbon lock-in in energy-intensive industry? A case study into Dutch chemicals production
Keeping global mean temperature rise well below 2 °C requires deep emission reductions in all industrial sectors, but several barriers inhibit such transitions. A special type of barrier is carbon lock-in, defined as a process whereby various forms of increasing returns to adoption inhibit innovation and the competitiveness of low-carbon alternatives, resulting in further path dependency. Here, we explore potential carbon lock-in in the Dutch che…
Between National Models and Multi-Level Decoupling
Although attention to the local level of integration policymaking has increased recently, thus far, very few studies have focused on vertical ‘multi-level’ relations between policy levels and the implications these have for integration policies. This article asks how and why different configurations of relations between national and local governments affect the governance of migrant integration. To what extent, and if so, why do vertical relation…
Policy Analysis and Europeanization
This article analyses EU-level research–policy infrastructures and their role in the Europeanization of migrant integration policies at a time of perceived crisis and policy failure. Rather than focusing on either knowledge utilization or knowledge production, it focuses on what we call “knowledge infrastructures” or different ways of mobilizing research with specific purposes of knowledge utilization. Rather than finding one dominant configurati…
Mainstreaming in response to superdiversity? The governance of migration-related diversity in France, the UK and the Netherlands
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, m…
Framing the Immigration Policy Agenda
This study applies a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) design to examine how configurations of quantitative and qualitative aspects of media coverage associate with changes on the policy agenda. We analyze media coverage of sixteen focusing events related to Dutch immigration policies—an intractable policy controversy that is regularly under media scrutiny. In addition to the quantity of media attention, we take into account whether dominant…
Constructing Dutch Immigrant Policy
The development of Dutch immigrant policy over the past decades has been characterised by the rise and fall of several policy frames. The role that social researchers and research institutes have played in these frame shifts has changed significantly. This article reveals that there was a clear relation between the structure of the policy-making process in the Netherlands, including the division of labour between social research and policy-makers…
Are small towns a battleground for migration governance? Negotiating refugee integration in small towns in the Netherlands
A surge in refugee arrivals post-2015 challenged small localities across Europe to respond to 'refugee integration' locally. Existing literature focuses little on governance dynamics in small localities, particularly regarding actors' roles and relations. Based on fieldwork in four Dutch localities, we analyse the involvement of different actor types and explore if/how they develop collaborative relations. We show that small town governments enga…
Governance by Proxy
This paper assesses mainstreaming as a governance strategy that potentially addresses the call for a more integral governance response to wicked policy problems. Our comparative qualitative policy analysis of the mainstreaming of immigrant integration governance contributes to the governance and mainstreaming literature by emphasizing the importance of strong horizontal and vertical coordination mechanisms and the distinction between universal an…
Policy Analysis and the “Migration Crisis”
Besides taking policy as its object of analysis, policy analysis has always played a role in policy processes itself. In this respect, Lasswell (1970) already defined the role of policy analysis as
The Politics of Migration and Immigration in Europe
Analyzing the European Politics of Migration Maintaining 'Fortress Britain'? France Still the One and Indivisible Republic? Germany Normalised Immigration Politics? Multicultural Dilemmas in The Netherlands and Sweden The Politics of Migration in an Integrating Europe Southern Europe Immigration Politics in Newer Immigration Countries The Europeanization of Migration Politics in Central and Eastern Europe Assessing the European Politics of Migrat…
The political flow of wisdom
This paper deals with the different roles that scientific knowledge can play in shaping and redefining policy images, focusing on two quite distinct policy fields in The Netherlands: immigrant policy and assisted reproductive technology policy. Interactions between policy-makers and scientific experts are linked to processes of negative and positive feedback in which a policy monopoly is maintained or attacked. We show how science and the structu…
Two Worlds Apart
Immigrant integration has become an intractable policy controversy in the Netherlands. One facet of this controversy involves the different ways in which immigrant integration has been framed by national and local governments. National government has formulated a “citizenship approach” to immigrant integration, whereas local governments often chose a more accommodative approach to migrant groups. In this article, the authors argue that this discr…
Building Bridges Across Frames
The integration of immigrants is an intractable policy controversy in Dutch politics: the Blok Committee was established by Parliament to offer a resolution. However, its evaluation study ‘Building Bridges’, itself became controversial. This paper asks: Why did the policy evaluation of the Blok Committee become so fiercely contested? We argue that the debate on immigrant integration can be characterized by frame-conflict: there were fundamental d…
Le “modèle multiculturel” d’intégration néerlandais en question
Bonding, bridging and ethnic minorities in the Netherlands
The discourse on the integration of ethnic minorities in the Netherlands has undergone profound changes over the past few decades. This article analyses how discourses in politics and academia have revolved around changing emphases upon the social capital processes of ‘bonding’ of individuals within groups and ‘bridging’ of individuals to the wider society. Four episodes of discourse and policy may be distinguished: denial of being a country of i…
Leadership in Policy Innovation
Policy innovation is necessary for many environmental issues such as climate change and water management. Highly motivated individuals, who are both willing and able to take the lead and press home innovative proposals and as such transform existing policy, are vital in this process. This article focuses on such individuals. An exploration of the literature is confronted with the findings of an empirical study among local policy makers with a rep…
Beyond the Dutch “Multicultural Model”
The Netherlands has been internationally known for its multicultural approach to immigrant integration. The aim of this article is to delve into the “coproduction” by researchers and policy makers of this so-called Dutch “multicultural model”. As this article shows, researchers and policy makers have in The Netherlands been joined in several discourse coalitions. Indeed, one of these discourse coalitions supported an integration paradigm with mul…
Setting the Immigrant Policy Agenda
Policy making and agenda setting often are analyzed either in terms of how policy problems are defined, or in terms of the structural setting producing stability or opportunities for change. Building on different fields of scholarly work, this paper aims at an integration of structural and substantive elements in studying agenda setting. We analyze how particular frames of immigrant issues emerge in the interaction between policy makers and exper…
Framing Immigrant Integration
International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in EuropeThe IMISCOE Research Network unites researchers from, at present, 28 institutes specialising in studies of international migration, integration and social cohesion in Europe.What began in 2004 as a Network of Excellence sponsored by the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission has become, as of April 2009, an independent self-funding endeavour open to qualified research…
The Role of Narratives in Migration Policy-Making
While debates on migration policy often revolve around rival values and interests, they also invoke knowledge claims about the causes, dynamics and impacts of migration. Such claims are best conceptualised as ‘policy narratives’, setting out beliefs about policy problems and appropriate interventions. Narratives are likely to be more successful where they meet three criteria: they are cognitively plausible, dramatically or morally compelling and,…
Constructing Dutch Immigrant Policy
The development of Dutch immigrant policy over the past decades has been characterised by the rise and fall of several policy frames. The role that social researchers and research institutes have played in these frame shifts has changed significantly. This article reveals that there was a clear relation between the structure of the policy-making process in the Netherlands, including the division of labour between social research and policy-makers…
Deconstructing the Dutch multicultural model
Agenda dynamics and the multi-level governance of intractable policy controversies
Comparative Migration Studies
This inaugural issue marks the launch of the new journal Comparative Migration Studies (CMS). Over the past decades, and especially since the 1970s and 1980s, migration studies has evolved rapidly as a research field rooted in various disciplines. Like the phenomenon of migration itself, migration research has become increasingly globalized, which is manifested by the many migration research institutes across the world where academics from variou…
Policy Analysis and Europeanization
This article analyses EU-level research–policy infrastructures and their role in the Europeanization of migrant integration policies at a time of perceived crisis and policy failure. Rather than focusing on either knowledge utilization or knowledge production, it focuses on what we call “knowledge infrastructures” or different ways of mobilizing research with specific purposes of knowledge utilization. Rather than finding one dominant configurati…
The Interplay of Knowledge Production and Policymaking
This article speaks to the broader literature on how policy analysis does more than just “speaking truth to power”. It focuses on the relation between policy setting and knowledge production, in particular on how the politicisation of migrant integration in Germany and the Netherlands has altered the interplay between knowledge production and policymaking. The analysis shows that the interaction between both worlds affects not just policymaking b…
Policy populism? Political populism and migrant integration policies in Rotterdam and Amsterdam
Research-Policy Dialogues in the Netherlands
The Netherlands was one of the first countries in Europe to formulate a coordinated national policy on migrant integration, in the early 1980s. In the 2000s, it was again among the first to make a sharp assimilationist turn away from the multicultural model. Much of the extensive ethnic monitoring structure set up in the 1980s and 1990s still exists, but the positivist belief in the role of scientific research as a tool for societal engineering i…
Integrating Immigrants in Europe
Migration; Knowledge - Discourse; Public Policy
Politicization and expertise
Intractable policy controversies like migrant integration often involve a high level of politicization. This paper looks specifically at how and why politicization changes research–policy dialogues, involving both the structure of these dialogues and how they affect policy-making and knowledge production. Migrant integration policy (in five EU countries and at EU level) is taken as a case study. Bringing together theories on knowledge utilization…
Policy Analysis in Times of Austerity
Introduction: \nThe globalfinancial crisis has created an almost unparalleled process of politicization and policy change. However, has the crisis also been a window of opportunity for policy learning? To put it differently, has policy change been driven by puzzling or by powering? In this second special issue on policy analysis in times of a (perceived) crisis, we address the role of policy analysts and the outcome of their work in times of aust…
Policy Analysis and the “Migration Crisis”
Besides taking policy as its object of analysis, policy analysis has always played a role in policy processes itself. In this respect, Lasswell (1970) already defined the role of policy analysis as
A Local Dimension of Integration Policies? A Comparative Study of Berlin, Malmö, and Rotterdam
This study examines three theses on local integration policies by a qualitative comparative case study of integration policies in three cities in three different countries (Berlin, Malmö, and Rotterdam). We found little evidence of a congruent local dimension of integration policies. Local policies resemble their national policy frameworks fairly well in terms of policy approaches and domains. Our multi-level perspective shows that this is not th…
Analysing Local Policy Agendas
This article provides an analysis of the allocation of attention to policy problems on the local level, focusing on the executive agenda of six municipalities in the Netherlands over a 25-year period. It reveals that there is specifically a local politics of attention, showing differences between national and local policy agendas in specific policy areas. We did not find evidence that the political composition of the local executive coalitions le…
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