Overview
- Argues that migration as well as the implications of migration constitute complex social phenomena that warrant a complex governance approach
- Conceptualises mainstreaming as a response to problems of alienation that are rampant in various policy domains
- Contributes to and encourages reflexivity in governance and policymaking
Part of the book series: Global Diversities (GLODIV)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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About this book
This book explores the role of complexity in the governance of migration and diversity. Current policy processes often fail to adequately capture complexity, favouring ‘quick fix’ approaches to regulation and integration that result in various forms of alienation: problem alienation, institutional alienation, political alienation and social alienation.
Scholten draws on literature from gender and environmental governance to develop ‘mainstreaming’, an approach that reframes migration as a contingent and emergent process made up of complex actor networks, rather than a one-size-fits-all policy model. By ensuring actors understand and respond to complexity, migration research can contribute to reflexivity in policy processes, help to promote mainstreaming, and prevent alienation. The result will be of interest to students and scholars of migration and governance studies, with a focus on policymaking and integration.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Peter Scholten is Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Director of the IMISCOE Research Network on International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe, Editor-in-Chief of Comparative Migration Studies, and Director of the LDE Research Centre on the Governance of Migration and Diversity, The Netherlands.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mainstreaming versus Alienation
Book Subtitle: A Complexity Approach to the Governance of Migration and Diversity
Authors: Peter Scholten
Series Title: Global Diversities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42238-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42237-0Published: 20 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42240-0Published: 20 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42238-7Published: 19 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2662-2580
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2599
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 223
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Sciences, general, Social Policy, Public Policy