Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1: Introduction; From Multiculturalism to Diversity; Doing Diversity in Bureaucracy; Ideas, Policy, and Practice: A Dynamic Interplay; Bridging the Divide Between Theory and Practice; Examining Local State Practices; Amsterdam, Antwerp and Leeds and the Shift Away from Multiculturalism; Structure of the Book; Bibliography; 2: Diversity: A New Approach to Difference; A Genealogy of Diversity; Critiques of Multiculturalism; Assessing Diversity Against Multiculturalism; Conceptions of Self and Other
An Individual and Intersectional Approach Selfing and Othering in Practice; Conceptions of Culture; Diversity as Taking the Hands Off Culture; Individual Versus Target Groups in Practice; Conceptions of Equality; How Do Diversity and Equality Combine?; Diversity and Equality in Practice; Conclusion; Bibliography; 3: The Changing Nature of Public Authorities and Bureaucrats; Trends of Modernization and Diversification; Modernization; Diversification; Entrepreneurial and Authentic; Recruiting the New Public Official; Four Types of Self-representation; The 'Authentic' Official
The Competent Manager The Neutral Public Official; The 'Altruist' Official; Conclusion; Bibliography; 4: What Shapes Local Level Policies?; A Framework for Understanding Local Responses to Difference; The Relevance of the National and European Levels for Local Policies; Exchanges Between Cities; Local Context; Towards a More Complex Assessment of Local Immigrant Incorporation Policies; National and Regional Factors; The Netherlands; Dutch Policies; Dutch Legislation and Funds; Flanders; Flemish Policies; Flemish Legislation and Funds; The UK; British Policies
British Legislation and Funds Comparing the Relationship Between the National and the Local Levels Across the Case Studies; Local Factors; Antwerp; Amsterdam; Leeds; Comparing the Importance of Local Context Across the Three Cities; City Networks and Exchanges Between Cities; Comparing the Importance of Exchanges Between Cities on Local Immigrant Policies; Conclusion; Bibliography; 5: Diversity Policy in Practice; The Local Introduction of the Diversity Concept; Diversity Policy in Leeds; Diversity Policy in Antwerp; Diversity Policy in Amsterdam
Starting Premises of Proclaimed 'Diversity Policies' Structures and Agents for Implementing Diversity Policy; Merging Preceding Departments; The Location of Diversity Departments; Creating a Team; Relationships with Politicians; Practices of Implementation; Consultancy: Institutional Position and Position vis-à-vis Politicians; Project Work: Categorical Foci as Intrinsic to the Governmental Way of Working; An Implementation Gap; Conclusion; Bibliography; 6: Paradigmatic pragmatism: The Character of Local Responses to Difference; Diversity: A New Politics of Difference

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Context of European cities, municipal organizations and diversity : the new politics of difference, Maria Schiller

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