Cities of Migration: The Challenges of Social Inclusion

Specialized terminology, instrumental competence, and corpus management tools / Terminología especializada, competencia instrumental y herramientas de gestión de corpus

“…On the other hand, the public services' user receives complex and varied information when it comes to legal-administrative texts, and certain administrative traditions, like the Spanish one, are known for their bureaucracy (Pérez et al 2021). As Costa and Ewert (2014) explain, linguistic, cultural, economic, and bureaucratic factors influence the inclusion of migrant population in a host society.…”

Governing the multicultural city: Europe’s ‘great urban expectations’ facing austerity and resurgent nativism

“…While these developments happened mostly at national level, they strongly affected cities, which had been where actually existing multicultural practices had developed (Fincher et al, 2014). ‘Re-nativising’ discourses were accompanied by visions of cities – and their more multicultural neighbourhoods – as problematic, ‘foreign’ and dysfunctional (Costa and Ewert, 2014: 148), and the urban dream of harmonious multicultural living was recast as a ‘multicultural hell’ (Keith, 2005). This prompted the rejection of group-based policies in favour of universalistic, individual-based policies that aim to ensure the integration of people of minority and/or migrant background while rectifying the social dis-integration that multicultural policies have supposedly ushered.…”

“…Moreover, the crisis exacerbated existing patterns of urban poverty concentration, with a double increase in social exclusion in cities compared with other areas. 5 This is compounded by the fact that migrants and minorities – who were hit particularly hard by crisis and austerity – are concentrated in cities (Costa and Ewert, 2014). 6 Notwithstanding clear linkages, scholarly compartmentalisation has meant that explanations of policy shifts happening in this context remain partial; either excessively focused on identity issues in multiculturalism scholarship, or surprisingly forgetful of ethno-cultural difference in urban austerity scholarship (Schiller and Çağlar, 2011).…”