Area 1
Causes, forms of organization, and consequences of mobility and migration in the context of globalization and Europeanization, and international migration regimes.

AMID Research Projects within Area 1:

Senior Project
Responsible for project: Lisanne Wilken

Multicultural Europe--an Analysis of the European Vision of "Multiculturalism" and its Relation to Member-state Perceptions of Immigrant Cultures (Area 1 and 4)
The project addresses the European vision of multiculturalism and its relation to member-state attitudes, with specific reference to perceptions of immigrant cultures. On the one hand, the project will document and analyze the vision of multiculturalism which has been developed in the European Union over the last 15-20 years, and on the other discuss the relationship between this vision and the perceptions of and attitudes to policies toward immigrant cultures in three member-states: Austria, France and Denmark.. Based on newspaper debates, internet sources and political programs with reference to multiculturalism and migrant culture in the three states, the project will discuss the national attitudes toward multiculturalism in comparative perspective. It will also address the question of the extent to which the EUropean vision of multiculturalism can be said to apply to the three states. The topicality of the multicultural issue has recently been highlighted through the decision to isolate Austria, reinvigorating national debates on European values, cultural diversity and migrant cultures.