Challenging the Paradoxes of Integration Policies

Dr. Fabiola Pardo, Dutch Colombian, Ph.D. in Social and Political Science from the University of Leiden, the Netherlands and a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Montreal, Canada. Her pre-graduate studies are in Law and Philosophy at the Externado University and National University of Colombia, respectively.  Since 2007 she works as a research professor in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at the Externado University of Colombia and coordinates LIMITI, a research group on international migration and intercultural trajectories. During her career, Dr. Pardo has worked in Colombia, Canada and the Netherlands in public and academic institutions on themes related to urban and cultural studies, immigration policy and theory, multiculturalism and intercultural relations. Some relevant publications are: “Integration policies and practices: Intercultural urban trajectories of Latin American migrants in Europe” in Migration, Stadt und Urbanität. Perspektiven auf die Heterogenität migrantisher lebenswelten (2017) Springer; Migración laboral en Europa. Crisis, políticas y movilidades en el caso de los latinoamericanos en España (2016) Externado University Press); Inmigración, multiculturalidad and políticas de integración: Colombianos en Ámsterdam, Londres y Madrid (2012); “La inmigración y el devenir de las sociedades multiculturales: perspectivas políticas y teóricas” en Las Migraciones en América Latina: Políticas, Culturas y Estrategias (2008).

• Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- The geopolitical context of the “new migration” in Europe and the challenges of integration.- A critical approach to the notion of integration and its use in policy.- Urban diversity and the scope of multiculturalism.- Transnationalism and interculturalism as patterns of integration in a global perspective.- Amsterdam’s political pillars of diversity.- London, global city and “Superdiversity”.- Madrid’s intercultural perspective.- The limits of citizenship as a strategy for integration.- Europe in the context of Latin-American international migrations.- Latin Americans as a new immigrant group at the beginning of the twenty first century.- Latino trajectories in the European city: Amsterdam, London and Madrid.- Latin Americans confronting integration policies.- Transnationalism and integration synergies.- The ambiguities surrounding “migratory status” in integration processes.- The city as a refuge: space, coexistence and agency.- Conclusions.- Bibliography.