Why Do Migration and Diversity Policies so Often Derail? – Seminar Series in Migration and Ethnicity

04/05/2023 35 min

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Why do migration and diversity policies so often derail? A complexity perspective on the governance of migration and diversity

Speaker – Peter Scholten, Erasmus University Rotterdam

There are few policy areas that are so often in some form of ‘crisis mode as migration and (migration-related) diversity policies. In this contribution, speaker Peter Scholten takes a complexity governance perspective on migration and diversity policy.

Peter analyses why migration and diversity policies so often derail in their effort to come to terms with complexity. In this regard, he distinguishes various forms of alienation in policy processes, ranging from political forms of alienation to institutions, social and problem-related alienation.

Building on complexity literature, Peter also sketches the contours of a governance approach to embracing complexity, while establishing links with the literature on environmental and gender mainstreaming as illustrations of complexity governance.

More on Seminar Series in Migration and Ethnicity: https://ecpr.eu/Events/165

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