INTERCULTURAL CITIES: GOVERNANCE AND POLICIES FOR DIVERSE COMMUNITIES

Total migrant numbers across the world’s continents Source: UN Migration Statistics International migrant stock: The mid-year (1 July) estimate of the number of people living in a country or area other than that in which they were born. If the number of foreign-born was not available, the estimate refers to the number of people living in a country other than that of their citizenship. Latin America & The Caribbean 7.47m 1.3% Northern America 50.04m 14.2% Europe 69.85m 9.5% Oceania 6.02m 16.8% Asia 61.32m 1.5% Africa 19.26m 1.9% Total migrant numbers across the world’s continents

In the age of SUPERDIVERSTY “ Integrationist” approaches have reached their limit

Inclusion strategies are unsustainable without diversity stategies

What is Intercultural integration?

An explicit framework of rights and responsibilities Foster pluralistic identity through public discourse & symbolic politics Incentivise cross-cultural interaction and entrepreneurship

Foster intercultural competence Empower bridge-builders, not gate-keepers Establish a “representative bureaucracy” and governance Conflict as a catalyst of debate A strategic approach across administrative silos

FROM PEOPLE WITH NEEDS

TO PEOPLE WITH RESOURCES

Integration policy matrix Economic rights Civil & social rights Cultural rights Community building Guest worker v Assimilation vv Multiculturalism vvv Interculturalism vvvv

Managing diversity as an opportunity

The cities as cultural laboratories

reclaiming space & history

Melitopol, Ukraine

Porte de Flandre, Molenbeek, Brussels September 2010 Artist: Emilio López-Menchero

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