Peter Scholten’s research while affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam and other places

... Our conceptual perspective derives from research on multi-level governance (MLG) of integration policymaking and its manifestation at the local level (see Çağlar and Nina 2011;Zapata-Barrero, Caponio, and Scholten 2017). Recently, there has been a growing interest in horizontal governance relations and dynamics at the local level, both cooperative and conflictual (Caponio and Pettrachin 2023;Jonitz, Schiller, and Scholten 2024). This paper builds on the concept of the 'local battleground', initially developed to examine the actor constellations in the reception of refugees in Italy (Ambrosini 2021;Campomori and Ambrosini 2020) to conduct an in-depth analysis of dynamics of cooperation and conflict in integration governance in times of crises. ...

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Negotiating migrant integration in times of crisis in small municipalities in Germany

... Ці приклади і аргументи демонструють потенціал інтеграційних політик для вирішення проблем нестачі робочої сили та стимулювання економічного зростання. В українському контексті, де державні підприємства відіграють ключову роль у стратегічних секторах економіки, впровадження концепції "створення місця разом" [11] може стати потужним інструментом для залучення як внутрішньо переміщених осіб, так і зовнішніх мігрантів до процесу відновлення та модернізації цих підприємств [29]. За оцінками експертів, Україна потребуватиме залучення значних людських ресурсів для відбудови, яка оцінюється у понад 400 мільярдів доларів США. ...

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Creating a New ‘Place’: How Renewed Immigration and Integration Policies and Public Governance Can Aid the Development of Ukrainian State-Owned Enterprises?

... Research increasingly recognises the crucial role of localities in migration governance, a development that had been termed the 'local turn' in multilevel governance (MLG) studies (Caponio 2022;Pisarevskaya, van Breugel, and Scholten 2024;Zapata-Barrero, Caponio, and Scholten 2017). Due to their limited capacity and integration structures, small communities have been particularly challenged by the increased number of refugees. ...

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Negotiating migrant integration in times of crisis in small municipalities in Germany

... In Germany, the concept of sustainable development is integrated into village renewal and practice, and old local houses are transformed to ensure the comfort and safety of rural B&Bs and to maintain the rural environment and regional specificity [28]. At the same time, German countryside B&Bs are mainly located in traditional buildings in rural areas, which greatly protect and inherit the local traditional culture and architectural style, and their unique characteristics also attract a large amount of the urban population to experience and enjoy them [29][30][31][32]. ...

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A Study of the Emotional Impact of Interior Lighting Color in Rural Bed and Breakfast Space Design

... In recent times, one concept that has proven to enshrine a significant explanatory and transformative potential for identifying and addressing these features and needs is that of "superdiversity" (Vertovec, 2007). This term has been explored in a vast array of disciplines-including Political Science (Phillimore, Sigona & Tonkiss, 2020), Legal Studies (Ballard, 2007;Shah, 2008), Linguistics (Creese & Blackledge, 2018), Translation Studies (Kredens & Drugan, 2018) and Legal Translation Studies (McAuliffe & Trklja, 2018)in which, in any event, claims for interdisciplinary efforts are frequent. Superdiversity does not merely describe the "diversification of diversity", i.e., the heterogeneity and complexity of experiences brought about by migration, displacement, mobility and interconnectedness which coexist in our increasingly multicultural, multilingual, and ethnodiverse social formations and institutional and digital landscapes. ...

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Approaching law in superdiverse, global societies: The challenges of and for legal translation in plural legal orders

... The need for new conceptual models and methodological tools to capture and account for the new urban diversity is indicated by the extensive and rapid growth of studies concerning "superdiversity" (Vertovec, 2007)a concept that denotes the multidimensional character of current-day diversity. While the superdiversity concept has been variously invoked and critiqued (see Creese & Blackledge, 2018;Vertovec, 2019;Meissner et al., in press), many scholars find the concept useful because, similarly to the concept of intersectionality (Khazaei, 2018), it emphasizes the need to look beyond ethnicity as a primary or sole marker and determinant of migrant trajectories of settlement, integration and social mobility (Piekut et al., 2012). In a condensed way, the concept of superdiversity seeks to emphasize the complex nature of these trajectories and their outcomes (Crul, 2016). ...

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Visualizing superdiversity and “seeing” urban socio-economic complexity

... The literature on emergency governance in general and migration governance during the COVID-19 pandemic in particular has been growing rapidly. Yet, as Arias Cubas et al. (2022) have noted, both the impact of COVID-19 on societies and the impact of the pandemic on the way in which migration is conceptualised remain far from clear. Among a diversity of research approaches, two main strands of literature on models of emergency governance can be distinguished: scholarship examining the securitisation efforts of governments worldwide in response to the spread of the COVID-19 virus (Fraundorfer & Winn, 2021;Tesche, 2021); and literature showing how COVID-19 has been tackled according to the logic of neoliberal economics and wealth accumulation (Bacevic & McGoey, 2021;Livne, 2021). ...

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The discourse and practices of Polish migration policy during the COVID-19 pandemic – economisation as a form of emergency governance

... Consequently, mobility was increasingly seen as a possible adaptation strategy [27][28][29][30]. Migration could diversify one's livelihood and was therefore considered a potential source of new income that could help to mitigate the risks associated with the impacts of climate and environmental change through practices of financial remittances [31] or social capital and networks [32][33][34]. During the first decade of the 2000s, this new conception was largely accepted and promoted by scholars as well as by international organizations and agencies such as IOM or IPCC [31,35]. ...

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Navigating the (Im)mobility–Adaptation Nexus in the Context of Climate and Environmental Change: A Typological Discussion

... While several scholars have tried to understand how different conceptualisations of migrant integration (or 'models') inspire integration policies, and which policy models prevail at the national or local levels (Huddleston and Scholten 2022), mostly analysing policy documents (e.g., Van Breugel 2020), much fewer works have looked at the specific understandings of migrant integration held by different actors involved in integration governance. ...

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Who is responsible for migrant integration? Contextual political drivers of governance actors’ responsibility frames in small and medium European localities

... A very important aspect in understanding migrants is that there is no "one-size-fits-all" approach to understanding cities of migration. Cities in different geographic locations as well as in different times may have very different migration patterns [10]. Defining different groups in the city is always debatable, and it is always a sensitive subject due to its sociopolitical implications. ...

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Emerging Residential Trends within Socially Heterogeneous Settings: The Case of Jabal Al-Hussein Amman