Diversity Management in Spain: New Dimensions, New Challenges - Hardcover

Zapata-Barrero, Ricard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719088542 ISBN 13: 9780719088544

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2013

Synopsis

In the current European dilemma as to whether to increase diversity policies or move towards an assimilationist policy, it is difficult to know what the Spanish approach is. This book argues that Spain represents a context of “multiple diversity”, where two frameworks interact: an old, unresolved one, arising from democratic transition, and a new one due to immigration. This explains the Spanish practical approach, where the recent past plays the role of an iron cage, limiting institutional innovation and change. The author proposes a heuristic model, to better understand the “Spanish laboratory of diversities”. In order to go through these steps, the author analyses three case studies, coming from the political/social agenda: education, workplace, and political rights. At the end, the reader will have an empirically informed and theoretically founded overview on how Spain is managing diversity. This book is timely for a wide range of academic and professional readers. -- .

About this title

About the Author

Ricard Zapata-Barrero is Professor of Political Science at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain), and director of GRITIM-UPF (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration)

From the Back Cover

In the current critical European dilemma as to whether to increase diversity policies or move towards an assimilationist policy, it is difficult to know what the Spanish approach is. Because immigration is relatively new, government policies are struggling to manage the diversity it entails. This book argues that Spain can be considered a context of "multiple diversity", where two frameworks interact: an old, unresolved one, arising from the democratic transition, and a new one due to immigration. This explains the Spanish practical approach, where recent past and its different traditions limit institutional innovation and structural change. The author proposes a heuristic model to better understand the current "Spanish laboratory of diversities".

The author analyses in depth three case studies which have been at the forefront of the political and social agenda for decades: education, the workplace, and political rights.

This book provides the reader with an updated overview on how Spain is managing diversity, empirically informed and theoretically founded, which highlights new dimensions and normative challenges. It will appeal to researchers in social science, graduate and postgraduate students, policy makers and international stakeholders.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719088542
• ISBN 13: 9780719088544
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224