The management of interculturality in times of crisis: the discourse of technicians in local administration in Catalonia
This work analyzes the discourse of front-desk immigration policy makers at the local level on the impact of the economic crisis and the denominated «adjustment policies» on the changes in migrant’s demand and management of the same policies. This happens in a specific context –the Catalan one- whic...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidad Pontificia Comillas
2016-06-01
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| Series: | Migraciones |
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.upcomillas.es/index.php/revistamigraciones/article/view/6830 |
| Summary: | This work analyzes the discourse of front-desk immigration
policy makers at the local level on the impact of the economic
crisis and the denominated «adjustment policies» on the changes
in migrant’s demand and management of the same policies.
This happens in a specific context –the Catalan one- which has
adopted an Interculturality discourse as a normative discourse.
To do this, we analyzed a set of personal interviews with 20 frontdesk
local policy makers in the immigration area and 10 politicians
also responsible for immigration issues within their municipalities.
Municipalities were selected according to a previous typology based
on the presence or not of residential enclaves, the segregation level and
the population size. Interviewee’s discourse allow us to outline the
complexity of relationships that the policy manager’s perceive
between their own work and the migrant population, in a context
of economic recession and under the influx of a changing political
discourse. |
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| ISSN: | 1138-5774 2341-0833 |