Colour-blind diversity: how the “Diversity Label” reshaped anti-discrimination policies in three French local governments

Bereni, Laure; Epstein, Renaud; Torres, Manon

doi:10.1080/01419870.2020.1738523

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“…Specific issues, such as housing and training, faced by migrants were not a core priority of the municipalities. However, the treatment of migration-related issues remained constrained by the weak legitimacy of local elected representatives and civil servants involved and the dilution of migration and ethnic issues into broader anti-discrimination policies (Bereni et al, 2020;Flamant, 2020).…”

Section: An Incomplete Migration Agenda For French Cities At Local Na...mentioning

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French city networking: Drivers and rationale for national investment

Flamant

2022

Global Networks

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Drawing on qualitative investigations of three French cities, this this paper contributes to an understanding of the reasons behind the proliferation of activist city networks. Following the literature on the functions of transnational city networks, this article reveals four significant drivers that explain the preference of French cities for national city network ANVITA over international city networks amid a surge of welcoming initiatives. The four drivers offer opportunities to (1) share experience, (2) shame national authorities and propose alternative narratives, (3) limit pressure and opposition from NGOs and activists and (4) lend legitimacy to current policies and attain a label of “welcoming city” for Green and left‐leaning municipal coalitions. Thus, if the practical and symbolic functions are standard with international city networks, the symbolic functions play a significant role; some are explicit (shaming), whereas other are more implicit (relations with NGOs and partisan positioning). This article insists on the need to consider the political dimension of city networking as a significant driver for municipal actors. This political dimension is key to understanding how cities can (or not) be prominent actors in the governance of migration in the years to come.

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Section: An Incomplete Migration Agenda For French Cities At Local Na...mentioning

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French city networking: Drivers and rationale for national investment

Flamant

2022

Global Networks

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“…On peut relever des formes très différentes du diagnostic : celui-ci peut être ponctuel ou régulier, voire continu comme dans la pratique du monitoring ; ciblé ou multidimensionnel ; s'inscrire dans une démarche d'évaluation de pratiques identifiées ou au contraire être préalable à toute entreprise de réforme organisationnelle ou territoriale ; relever ou non d'une obligation légalecomme dans le cas du rapport de situation comparée entre femmes et hommes dans l'entreprise étudiée par Vincent-Arnaud Chappe et Hélène Demilly -, ou être nécessaire à l'obtention d'un label, comme dans le cas du label de la diversité pour les collectivités territoriales (Bereni et al, 2020) ; ne chercher que l'objectivation interne des discriminations ou s'inscrire dans une démarche de comparaison par rapport à d'autres entités comme dans le cas du benchmarking (Blanchard, 2018). Ces diagnostics peuvent être réalisés par des acteurs internes à l'organisation, ce qui peut les conduire à devoir s'approprier des outils d'objectivation ne relevant pas forcément de leur champ de compétence.…”

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Introduction : à quoi servent les chiffres de la discrimination ?

Chappe¹,

Eberhard²

2021

Les Cahiers De La LCD

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“…Lyon, a city that applied for the diversity label, has adopted a self-representation of the city as being "construit dans la diversité" (Flamant 2014, 546). However, contrary to what one may expect, diversity concepts may be 'colour blind' and ignore racist discrimination (Bereni et al 2020). According to Flamant, the notion of diversité in the French cities of Nantes, Strasbourg and Lyon stands in a veritable competition with the notion of egalité and the fight against ethno-racial discriminations (Flamant 2014, 554).…”

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Vielfalt and diversité: how local actors in France and Germany evaluate immigration and socio-cultural heterogeneity

Schiller

Lang

Schönwälder

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In both Germany and France, perceptions of immigration, diversity and their societal consequences have undergone important transformations in the past two decades. However, existing research has only partially captured such processes. The “grand narratives” of national approaches, while still influential, no longer explain contemporary realities. Further, analyses of national politics and discourses may not sufficiently reflect the realities across localities and society more broadly. While emerging in different national contexts, little is known about how diversity is actually perceived by political stakeholders at the urban level. Given the key role of immigration and diversity in current conflicts over Europe’s future, it is imperative to assess present-day conceptualisations of migration-related diversity among important societal actors.This article investigates perceptions and evaluations of socio-cultural heterogeneity by important societal actors in large cities. We contribute to existing literature by capturing an unusually broad set of actors from state and civil society. We also present data drawn from an unusually large number of cities. How influential is the perception of current society as heterogeneous, and what forms of heterogeneity are salient? And is socio-cultural and migration-related heterogeneity evaluated as threatening or rather as beneficial? Based on an original data set, this study explores the shared and contested ideas, the cognitive roadmaps of state and non-state actors involved in local politics.We argue that, in both German and French cities, socio-cultural heterogeneity is nowadays widely recognized as marking cities and often positively connoted. At the same time, perceptions of the main features of diversity and of the benefits and challenges attached to it vary. We find commonalities between French and German local actors, but also clear differences. In concluding, we suggest how and why national contexts importantly shape evaluations of diversity.

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Colour-blind diversity: how the “Diversity Label” reshaped anti-discrimination policies in three French local governments

Cited by 19 publications

References 39 publications

French city networking: Drivers and rationale for national investment

French city networking: Drivers and rationale for national investment

Introduction : à quoi servent les chiffres de la discrimination ?

Vielfalt and diversité: how local actors in France and Germany evaluate immigration and socio-cultural heterogeneity

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