In this article, the local government (LG) administrative implications of the movement from
government to governance, involving multiple ties and externalized services operations, are …

Few social issues cover so many various areas of society and the social sciences as the
'headscarf affair'in France. The 'affair'involves national history, the place of religion, the …

This book challenges the usual questions asked about immigration policies and provides
new answers about the policy-making process. Instead of denouncing immigration policy …

Migrants have organized at all times and in all cities and places. The processes of their
accommodation, however, differ, with local authorities and other state institutions playing an …

Spain has been changing its institutional framework in important ways over the past thirty
years. The country has gone from a dictatorship to a democracy, from a unitary state to a …

How do sub-state regions respond to immigration and what drives their policy choices?
Combining the cross-national literature on citizenship and integration policy with the …

By tackling negative opinions towards immigration we can create a basis to orientate
policies that seek to reduce them. My purpose is to highlight that the analysis of immigration …

The paper provides an overview of policymaking in Spain relying upon bits and pieces of
research conducted from angles other than the one adopted in this study. The paper first …

A distinctive contribution to the politics of citizenship and immigration in an expanding
European Union, this book explains how and why differences arise in responses to …

This book examines two major social changes experienced by European cities in the last
two decades: post-industrial economic restructuring and new immigration flows. The link …