This paper provides a non-exhaustive overview of recent thinking and research on ethnic
mobilization in the social sciences. It does so in three sections. The first elucidates the …

There are relatively few books that provide comparative analysis of European cities in
relation to immigrants and political participation. This fresh and insightful volume, from the …

The collapse of communism and the process of state building that ensued in the 1990s have
highlighted the existence of significant minorities in many European states, particularly in …

This paper examines the institutional logics of migration policy making at local city level,
comparing four Danish municipal approaches. Using a theoretical framework on political …

Using a unique analytical framework based on host-stranger relations, this book explores
the response of cities to the arrival and settlement of labour immigrants. Comparing the local …

This article proposes an analytical framework for comparing and understanding local policy
reactions to the settlement of labour migrants, based on the concept of Host-Stranger …

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 …

The concept of articulation has a long history in the English language. Throughout this
history some meanings have been forgotten and others have been recently recovered and …

In the study of integration policies, the national level of individual countries has been the
dominant unit of analysis. In such studies, integration policies towards newcomers are …

This chapter presents some preliminary results from a literature survey of municipal policies
toward migrants in some 24 European cities and Tel Aviv. The core of the survey comprises …