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Intercultural Policies in Spain: Insights from the Intercultural Cities\u27 Experiences: Assessing Local Strategies for Inclusion, Dialogue, and Anti-Discrimination
No full textOver the past 25 years, Spain, along with several of its regions and municipalities, developed various policies aimed at integrating people of foreign origin—an integration often framed, at least formally, in intercultural terms. The State, several regions, and multiple municipalities have implemented plans, programs, and resources to foster intercultural dialogue and exchange. In fact, Spain is the country with the second-highest number of cities participating in the Council of Europe’s Intercultural Cities programme (ICC). This research brief succinctly analyzes key characteristics of intercultural policies in a set of Spanish intercultural cities, focusing on their efforts to combat racism and discrimination, as well as the main challenges they currently face. The findings presented are primarily based on a series of interviews with key actors involved in the development of these policies across various Spanish municipalities. Participation in the Intercultural Cities Network has served as a pathway to political and social engagement with the intercultural paradigm, as well as a means of promoting inclusion and conviviality. However, there are notable differences between cities, and significant progress remains to be made in combating discrimination and evaluating these policies effectively. 
Closing the Door to Sweden: Migration Legislative Changes and Government Inquiries in 2024
Full text linkThe Swedish government has committed to reducing immigration and is increasingly moving toward stricter migration policies and reduced rights for migrants. This article provides an overview of migration policy developments in Sweden during 2024, drawing on a unique database that maps and categorizes migration policy changes from 1954 to the present. The year 2024 saw a mix of restrictive and liberalizing reforms, including tighter asylum reception rules, more demanding citizenship criteria, and expanded access for highly skilled labor migrants under the EU Blue Card scheme. Additionally, temporary protection holders from Ukraine gained improved access to services. Ongoing and upcoming government inquiries signal a continued shift toward more restrictive policies, reflecting a broader realignment in Sweden’s migration governance
Migrants’ Quotidian Lived Experiences and Ethnic Capital: A Comparative Case Study of Hong Kong British National (Overseas) Migrants in the UK: How Do Ethnic Identities and Networks Affect Hong Kong Families\u27 Educational Trajectories After Migration to the UK?
No full textWhilst a considerable number of Hong Kong parent and schoolaged youth migrants have relocated to the UK, little is known about their familial migration and educational trajectories after migration. This qualitative study addresses this gap by examining the pertinent lived experiences of Hong Kong migrants. The study draws on data gathered from semi-structured interviews with two Hong Kong migrant families, as well as diaries and social network maps provided by the participants. The findings reveal that ethnic networks and ethnic norms are identified as two significant forms of ethnic capital, which can be leveraged to obtain educational information, facilitate adaptation to the new educational context, and shape migrant youths’ aspirations. It is important to note, however, that certain ethnic networks and norms may be perceived as ethnic deficits, potentially hindering Hong Kong migrants’ development in the UK, particularly in relation to their integration into the host society
When Is Home? Temporality, Closure, and the Continuum of Return After Assad: Challenging the Idea of Return as the Endpoint
No full textThe December 2024 fall of the Assad regime has been cast as a turning point for Syrian refugee return. Yet refugees stress timing over the act of return itself. Based on narratives from Syrians in Lebanon and Türkiye, this article shows how they view repatriation efforts as premature, politically driven, and disconnected from their complex everyday realities. Return unfolds not as a simple choice, but as provisional, investigative, and circular movement shaped by insecurity on both sides of the border. The “post-Assad” label suggests closure while masking ongoing instability and fractured social ties. Rejecting this narrative of finality, refugees reimagine return as part of an open-ended displacement trajectory. By centering the politics of temporality, the article highlights how return remains a contested, risky, and evolving process—its meanings shaped as much by host-country pressure as by shifting conditions inside Syria itself
ENHANCING DOCTORAL RESEARCH OUTPUT WITH OVERALL RESEARCH EFFECTIVENESS (ORE): : A MAINTENANCE ENGINEERING APPROACH
No full textDoctoral research requires efficient time management, resource allocation, and quality output. This paper introduces the Overall Research Effectiveness (ORE) framework, adapted from Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) in maintenance engineering, to optimize doctoral research. ORE focuses on availability, performance, and quality, to help PhD candidates improve productivity. Strategies include time management, Lean research techniques, and peer review. ORE in doctoral programs aims to enhance supervision, streamline research, and ensure high academic standards.Doktorandforskning kräver effektiv tidsplanering, resursfördelning och hög kvalitet på forskningsresultaten. Denna artikel introducerar Overall Research Effectiveness (ORE)-ramverket, inspirerat av Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) inom underhållsteknik, för att optimera doktorandforskning. ORE fokuserar på tillgänglighet, prestation och kvalitet, vilket hjälper doktorander att öka sin produktivitet. Strategier inkluderar tidsspårning, Lean forskningsmetoder och kollegial granskning. ORE i doktorandprogram syftar till att förbättra handledning, effektivisera forskningsprocessen och säkerställa höga akademiska standarder
Informal Policing of the Internal Border: The Geography of Xenophobic Violence in Stockholm
Full text linkXenophobic violence by non-state actors can be considered as a form of informal policing of the internal border in contemporary urban environments. As such, it contributes to the ubiquitous boundaries that face perceived migrants and racialized minorities in the conduct of everyday life. Drawing on a unique dataset of xenophobically motivated interpersonal violence in Stockholm between 2009 and 2022, this essay maps out the spatiotemporal pattern of these boundaries. Rather than serving as a “defense” of ethnically homogenous neighborhoods, xenophobic violence is practiced throughout the urban environment, severely limiting victims’ safety and mobility. 
Introduction to the Special Section: Borders and Bordering Processes
Full text linkBorders are not just lines on a map. They are social, political, and symbolic practices that shape how we live, move, and belong. Whether materialized as fences and checkpoints or enacted through technologies, discourses, and everyday encounters, borders are constantly made and remade. This special section explores how borders emerge through processes of inclusion and exclusion, control, and identity-making, and how they are also resisted, negotiated, and subverted. Drawing on rich empirical material and critical theoretical tools, the contributions of the special section of this issue of CIMR collectively push the field of border and migration studies toward a deeper understanding of bordering as a multifaceted and dynamic phenomenon
Migration, Mobility and Immobility: A Call for the Right to Stay: Challenging the Mobility Bias in Migration Studies
No full textThe mobility bias in migration studies results in immobility or better sedentism to being neglected in migration studies. Likewise, in normative discourses, migration scholars as well as practitioners often, instead, focus on the right to migrate and to seek international protection. What is neglected, though, is the right to stay put, the right not to be displaced, the right to a life in dignity at the place of one’s habitual residence and thus the right not to be compelled to migrate. This intervention sketches the state-of-the-art and calls for more studies into non-mobility and better recognition of the right to not have to migrate
Formativt arbetssätt som ett verktyg för språkutveckling och lärande i högre utbildning
Full text linkThis reflection is based on a formative method that is applied in one of the program courses in the teacher education program. The working method is based on observations that have been made in the current course in which the majority of students are second language learners. In view of broadened recruitment in higher education, this method of working can also be used in other courses and student groups. Initially, the formative working method in the current course is presented. It is then analyzed using Hoel\u27s (2012) response model and Matsuda and Cox\u27s (2011) proposed strategies for assessing second language learners\u27 texts. The conclusion that is drawn is that different types of response fulfill different functions and that university teachers in the meeting with students should address the response based on the different functions of the response to promote lifelong learning and language development in all students.Denna reflektion utgår ifrån ett formativt arbetssätt som tillämpas i en av programkurserna på lärarutbildningen. Arbetssättet baseras på iakttagelser som har gjorts i den aktuella kursen där merparten av studenterna är andraspråksinlärare. Med tanke på breddad rekrytering i högre utbildning kan detta arbetssätt med fördel användas även i andra kurser och studentgrupper. Inledningsvis presenteras det formativa arbetssättet i den aktuella kursen. Därefter analyseras det med hjälp av Hoels (2012) responsmodell samt Matsudas och Cox (2011) föreslagna strategier för bedömning av andraspråkinlärares texter. Slutsatsen som dras är att olika typer av respons uppfyller olika funktioner och att universitetslärare i mötet med studenter bör adressera responsen utifrån responsens olika funktioner i syfte att främja ett livslångt lärande och språkutveckling hos alla studenter.
The Grey Zone and Liminality as Complementary Conceptual Approaches for Border and Migration Studies: Capturing Structural Ambiguities and Migrants’ Experiences of Border Regimes
No full textThe article explores the analytical value of the concepts of the grey zone and liminality for border and migration studies. It argues that the concepts can be used in a complementary way in order to highlight the interrelationship between structural and individual dimensions of migration: The concept of the grey zone makes the institutional production of ambiguous and often discriminating legal and political spaces visible. Liminality highlights the spatial, social, temporal and legal in-between-ness of migrants and captures demonstrations of agency even under restrictive regimes