City Makers and the Politics of Urban Diversity Governance: Comparative Approaches from Europe and Asia

This open access book examines the rising challenges of managing diversity in European and Asian cities. It spotlights the roles of varied city makers - from urban leaders to migrant communities and civil society activists - in negotiating and transforming their city’s diversity governance. The book brings together the contributions of urban studies and migration studies scholars, which offer rich empirical analyses on various European and Asian cities, such as Paris, Singapore, Barcelona, and Guangzhou. Adopting a comparative lens, the book presents a decentered understanding of 'super-diverse' cities, examining shifts in urban policy-making within different geographical contexts, with distinct patterns of migration and diversification. By advancing urban comparison as a research tool, it contributes to the contemporary discussions on the local turn of migration and diversity policies.

1 - City Makers and Diversity Governance: The Roles of Urban
Leaders, Migrants, and Civil Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Jeremie Molho, Marie Gibert-Flutre, and Kong Chong Ho

Part I - City Leaders in the Policies and Politics of Urban Diversity

2 - Making the “Diverse City” Between Europe and East Asia:
Comparative Perspectives on Diversity Governance in Barcelona,
Hamamatsu, and Ansan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Beniamino Peruzzi Castellani
3 - The Policy of Refugee Reception and the Policing of Public Space
in Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Marco Cremaschi and Tommaso Vitale
4 - Cosmopolitan Diversity, Tech Migrants and Everyday Racisms
in Singapore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Daniel P. S. Goh and Shai-Ann Koh
5 - Entrepreneurial Urbanism Meets Migrant Businesses: Critical
Perspectives from Silk Road Paris (Tremblay-en-France) . . . . . . . . . 85
Marie Gibert-Flutre
6 - A Refuge for Whom? Orders of Legitimacy, Contradictions and
Paradoxes of a Self-Labeled ‘welcoming city’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Camille Schmoll and Catherine Lejeune
 

Part II - The Migrant as City Maker

7 - International Student Diversity Experiences in Their Host Cities. . . 123
Rochelle Yun Ge and Kong Chong Ho

8 - Janitors of Portuguese Origin in Paris: A Specific Mode of
Incorporation into a European Metropolis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Dominique Vidal
9 - Becoming an Urban Citizen? Social Relationships and the SelfDevelopment of Internal Migrants in Guangzhou, China. . . . . . . . . . 153
Samantha Shu Fang Lim and Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho
10 - Garment Wholesale Markets in Contemporary Global Cities:
Urban Spaces to Build Personalised Business Relationships: Paris
(France) vs Guangzhou (China) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Gilles Guiheux and Lulu Fan

Part III - Civil Societies: Imagining New Forms of Urban Diversity
Management

11 - Ethnic Exclusion Through Inclusive Cultural Policies: Hui
Muslims and the Silk Road-Based Urban Development in Xi’an,
China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Yang Yang
12 - Organising the Reception of Exiles in the Centre of Paris:
Between Visible Solidarity, Temporary Arrangements, and
Discretionary Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Léa Réville
13 - Culture in the Global Urban Margins: Cultural Policymaking
with Migrant Workers in Doha and Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Jeremie Molho
14 - Religious City Makers and Actors of Urban Diversity Governance:
Hindus in Paris and Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Natalie Lang
15 - Comparing Urban Diversity Governance: A Transregional and
Relational Perspective. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Jeremie Molho, Marie Gibert-Flutre, and Kong Chong Ho