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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on August 22, 2005
Community Development Journal 2005 40(4):433-438; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsi088
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Themes and issues

Social policy and community development in multicultural contexts

Carles Riera, Director

The Community Development Association (DC), Barcelona and lecturer at Barcelona University

Address for correspondence: DC, Via Laietana 54, 4t, 4a, E-08003, Barcelona, Spain; email: criera@aepdc.es

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   Globalization, migration and challenges to cohesion
 
The title of the conference seemed to indicate we are going to speak about the singularity of some social contexts with substantial ethnic diversity that requires a particular and specific response. These reflections attempt to present a generalized and normalized view of multicultural contexts as the dominant framework for current and future social policies in Europe.

Our European society is more and more multicultural. On the one hand, there are migratory movements from non-European countries and, on the other, the European Union (EU) composition and its enlargement process contribute to a continuous flow of territorial mobility. Both phenomena accelerate cultural diversity. Nevertheless, to talk about cultural pluralism, we must take into account both the progressive loss of cohesion in our societies and the fact of increasing diversification of individual and group identities, which is related to changes in familial structures, labour relationships, consumer habits and differentiation of values and beliefs.

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   New challenges for social policies
 

   Structural aspects of migrations and their consequences for public policies
 

   Towards interculturalism
 

   Intercultural mediation as a progress towards an intercultural inclusion
 
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   Areas of intervention
 

   Practice of intercultural community mediation and functions of the mediator figure
 

   Intercultural community mediation in conflict resolution
 

   Intercultural community mediation in creation of new strategies of intervention
 

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