CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Khan, Sarah |
|---|---|
| Title | Stranger In The City: An Exploratory Study Of Local Immigrant Integration Policies Of Barcelona 2010- 2020 |
| Summary | Human Migration is a natural phenomenon that has been happening for centuries. However, different countries have different attitudes and perceptions about the newcomers and their integration. It has been observed that migrant integration is no longer only a national responsibility but rather a local process as well. It is at the local level that the implementation of these policies takes place. Spain’s Quasi Federal form of government along with decentralized institutional and financial setting intrigues us to explore. Barcelona’s increasing migrant population and interesting municipal based projects demand to be studied for their immigrant integration policies and attitudes of local Government. This exploratory study is inductive, used Qualitative data collection method and borrowed the host-stranger theoretical framework from Michael Alexander to study different policy approaches at Legal -Political, Socio-Economic and Religious -cultural domain Level. The study compared different policy types, namely Transient, Guestworker, Assimilationist and Pluralist against these domains. It is noted that local policies in Barcelona do reflect the Local government’s perception of migrants and although a single domain might present a certain type of policy attitude, but they might differ within the domain’s issue areas. Under the Socioeconomic domain, Healthcare and housing fell under Guestworker and Transient policy, respectively, while all other issue areas were found to be Assimilationist. Similarly, in the case of cultural diversity, the cultural-religious issue is had a rather Pluralistic approach. A refined theoretical framework was developed to be used in future research. |
| Supervisor | Zentai, Violetta and Bianculli, Andrea C. |
| Department | School of Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/khan_sarah.pdf |
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