18th International Conference of Europeanists - Backlash Against Multiculturalism? Citizenship and Diversity in Contemporary Europe.

 MIPEX Central Research Coordinator, Thomas Huddleston, will speak at the workshop entitled "Backlash Against Multiculturalism? Citizenship and Diversity in Contemporary Europe." 20/06/2011 - 22/06/2011 Barcelona, Spain.
Thomas Huddleston and other European researchers will present their new findings from analysis of the Migrant Integration Policy Index and other Indexes on immigration, citizenship, and multiculturalism.
Thomas will present key findings of MIPEX secondary analysis and a framework for future policy evaluation. He will assess the strengths and weaknesses of current research attempts to use Indexes to evaluate integration policy 'failure' or 'success'.
About the event
In much of the western world, and particularly in Europe, there is a widespread perception that multiculturalism has ‘failed'. Governments are depicted as turning away from multicultural approaches to diversity, adopting more individualist or liberal conceptions of civic integration.
But is this image true? Or is the apparent backlash against multicultural approaches more evident at the level of discourse than at the level of policy?
This panel explores these questions by bringing together several papers based on recent attempts to develop measures or indicators of immigrant integration or indices of approaches to citizenship.
In addition to providing a clearer depiction of policy trends over time, the panel will discuss the value of such indices, their underlying presumptions about what is important or valuable to measure, and their relationship with changing meanings of citizenship, nationhood, integration, multiculturalism.
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