Bousetta, H, Favell, A orcid.org/0000-0001-5801-6847 and Martiniello, M (2018) Governing multicultural Brussels: paradoxes of a multi-level, multi-cultural, multi-national urban anomaly. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 44 (12). pp. 2070-2085. ISSN 1369-183X
Abstract
Updating our earlier work on Brussels as the paradigm of a multi-level, multi-cultural, multi-national city, and in the context of Brussels’s recent troubled emergence as the epicentre of violent conflict between radical political Islam and the West, this paper sets out the paradoxical intersection of national (i.e. Flemish and Francophone), non-national and ethnic minority politics in a city placed as a multi-cultural and multi-national ‘urban anomaly’ at the heart of linguistic struggle of the two dominant Belgian communities. Brussels is one of the three Regions of the Belgian federal model alongside Flanders and Wallonia. It is also an extraordinarily diverse and cosmopolitan city, in which a mixed language Belgian population lives alongside very high numbers of resident non-nationals, including European elites, other European immigrant workers, and immigrants from Africa and Asia. After laying out the complex distribution of power and competences within the Belgian federal structure, we explore whether these structures have worked over the years to include or exclude disadvantaged ethnic groups. To better understand these processes, we introduce our view of the multi-level governance perspective.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on 2 August 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1341712. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Belgium; Brussels; cities; citizenship; mobilisation; multiculturalism; federalism; political Islam; geopolitics |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 24 Jul 2017 10:18 |
Last Modified: | 02 Feb 2019 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/1369183X.2017.1341712 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:119347 |