Interculturalism and Immigration Governance in Global Cities.

From the 1970s to the 2000s, Sweden became the second country after Germany to accept the largest number of asylum seekers among the twenty countries in Europe and North America as well as ranking first of the MIPEX (Migration Integration Policy Index) in a list of thirty-one countries in terms of seven criteria of immigrant policy and practice. As for the former one, because of its Latin suzerain background, Barcelona naturally attracted massive inflows from Latin American countries like Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, and so on, and meanwhile, a copious large number of immigrants from non-European countries like China, Pakistan, Morocco, and the Philippines constituting another diverse social and ethnographic landscape. Keywords: globalization; transnationalism; interculturalism; urban governance; (im-)migration EN globalization transnationalism interculturalism urban governance (im-)migration 1428 1436 9 11/07/23 20231101 NES 231101 White, Bob W. (2018). To positively carry out diversity management, related reports were issued, such as Les aspects multiethniques d'une politique de développement culturel à Montréal and L'immigration et l'intégration: un enjeu québécois, une problématique montréalaise, and the related governmental bodies such as the Commission on the Political and Constitutional Future of Québec, the Bureau d'accueil des nouveaux immigrants (Welcoming Office for New Immigrants), and the Bureau interculturel de Montréal (Montréal Intercultural Bureau) were established in 1988, 1989, and 1991, respectively, to improve the relationship between Montréal's different communities. [Extracted from the article]