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Interculturalism in the post-multicultural debate: a defence

Overview of attention for article published in Comparative Migration Studies, September 2017
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Title
Interculturalism in the post-multicultural debate: a defence
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Comparative Migration Studies, September 2017
DOI 10.1186/s40878-017-0057-z
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Ricard Zapata-Barrero

Abstract

The main purpose of this article is to formulate a defence of the emerging intercultural policy paradigm for the benefit of those who are still somewhat reluctant to accept its proper place within the current migration-related diversity policy debate. My defence will take two main lines of argumentation: Firstly, I will state that the increasing intensity of the intercultural policy paradigm must be placed in the present-day post-multicultural period, which recognizes the strengths ​​of the multicultural policy paradigm but also the limits to its process for recognizing differences. The role played by the emerging national civic policy paradigm (a renovated version of assimilation), prioritizing duties before rights, will also be considered crucial to better contextualize interculturalism. Secondly, I will try to identify the main distinctive features of interculturalism, which legitimize its proper place within the diversity debate today. Without rejecting rights-based and duties-based policy approaches, interculturalism places more emphasis on a contacts-based policy approach, aimed at fostering communication and relationships among people from different backgrounds, including national citizens. This approach focuses on common bonds rather than differences. It also views diversity as an advantage and a resource, and centres its policy goals on community cohesion and reframing a common public culture that places diversity within rather than outside the so-called Unity. In reviewing the current literature and the origins of the intercultural policy paradigm, I restate its contribution towards resolving current trends in transnationalism, changing identities, superdiversity and the rise of populist anti-immigrant parties. These are issues the old multicultural project has struggled to deal with, which has provoked the current disillusionment. Lastly, I will propose a research avenue to further consolidate interculturalism as a distinctive and legitimate policy approach.

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Unknown 122 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 16 13%
Researcher 15 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 11%
Lecturer 8 7%
Student > Bachelor 8 7%
Other 26 21%
Unknown 36 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 44 36%
Arts and Humanities 15 12%
Philosophy 5 4%
Linguistics 4 3%
Psychology 3 2%
Other 14 11%
Unknown 37 30%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 January 2019.
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