INTERCULTURAL CITIES:

GOVERNANCE AND POLICIES FOR DIVERSE COMMUNITIES

Total migrant numbers across the world’s continents

Source: UN Migration StatisticsInternational migrant stock: The mid-year (1 July) estimate of the number of people living in a country or area other than that in

which they were born. If the number of foreign-born was not available, the estimate refers to the number of people living in a country other than that of

their citizenship.

Latin America & The Caribbean

7.47m1.3%

Northern America

50.04m14.2%

Europe

69.85m9.5%

Oceania

6.02m16.8%

Asia

61.32m1.5%

Africa

19.26m1.9%

Total migrant numbers across the world’s continents

In the age of

SUPERDIVERSTY

“Integrationist” approaches

have reached their limit

Inclusion strategies are unsustainable

without diversitystategies

What isIntercultural integration?

•An explicit framework of rights and responsibilities

•Foster pluralistic identity through public discourse & symbolic politics

•Incentivise cross-cultural interaction and entrepreneurship

•Foster intercultural competence

•Empower bridge-builders, not gate-keepers

•Establish a “representative bureaucracy” and governance

•Conflict as a catalyst of debate

•A strategic approach across administrative silos

FROM PEOPLE WITH NEEDS

TO PEOPLE WITH RESOURCES

Integration policy matrixEconomic rights

Civil & social rights

Cultural rights

Community building

Guest worker v

Assimilation v v

Multiculturalism v v v

Interculturalism v v v v

Managingdiversity as

an opportunity

The cities

as cultural laboratories

reclaiming space & history

Melitopol, Ukraine

Porte de Flandre, Molenbeek, BrusselsSeptember 2010

Artist: Emilio López-Menchero

MIGRANTAS

information

www.coe.int/interculturalcities