Mainstreaming versus Alienation: A Complexity Approach to the Governance of Migration and Diversity

This book explores the role of complexity in the governance of migration and diversity. Current policy processes often fail to adequately capture complexity, favouring ‘quick fix’ approaches to regulation and integration that result in various forms of alienation: problem alienation, institutional alienation, political alienation and social alienation.

Scholten draws on literature from gender and environmental governance to develop ‘mainstreaming’, an approach that reframes migration as a ...