Mainstreaming versus Alienation

Peter Scholten is Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Director of the IMISCOE Research Network on International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe, Editor-in-Chief of Comparative Migration Studies, and Director of the LDE Research Centre on the Governance of Migration and Diversity, The Netherlands.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. A Governance Perspective on the Complexification of Migration and Diversity. - 3. Between Governance Mainstreaming and Alienation. - 4. Knowledge. - 5. Institutions. - 6. Power. - 7. Discourses. - 8. Research, Reflexivity and the Practice of Migration and Diversity Governance. - 9. Conclusions.