This study begins with a discussion of the U.S. Supreme Court case involving Harvard University and the University of North Carolina and their unconstitutional affirmative action admission policies, then proceeds to speculate as to whether this Supreme Court decision can be applied to other...

Canadian housing cooperatives are a tool for building an inclusive society, bringing together people diverse in income, race, age, and ability/disability. This six-year case study of an Ottawa, Ontario, Canada housing co-op found that co-op housing provided benefits for its members: reducing the...

Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...

Colombia's social structure is highly concentrated. It must be corrected by increasing and deepening a social inclusion process. This idea is based on Amartya Sen's "ethics of development" and on the importance social and human capital in the priority of development. The process must include the...

This is probably the most critical point in migration history because since then neither immigration stopped nor the wish to stop it. Hence efforts to tighten the admission have been matched with widening variety of clandestine migrations. One major reason should be increasing poverty and...

In India the concept and application of social entrepreneurship is still in the nascent stage. Unorganized activities by some ambitious individuals represent the social entrepreneurial space in the Indian economy. Government initiated activities backed by suitable policy framework is still...

Während die Staatsangehörigkeit bei Erwachsenen nur wenig über den Stand der Integration aussagt, ist sie bei Kindern ein guter Indikator für eine nur kurz zurückliegende Migrationsgeschichte. So erhalten seit der Reform des Staatsangehörigkeitsrechts im Jahr 2000 alle in Deutschland zur...

We apply a monopoly trade union model and analyze employment, wage and budgetary effects of (i) an inflow of migrant workers and (ii) an increase in the labor market participation rate of migrants. Per assumption, natives and migrants solely differ with respect to the level of benefit claims in...

Understanding and monitoring the diversity which lies under migrants' socio-professional integration trends is a challenge that both Governments and local administrations must be able to face. This paper is about a research project, developed under the EU initiative Equal, consisting in the...

This paper examines the endogenous relationship between the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland or, more precisely, how economic and cultural barriers to integration reinforce each other. Are cultural differences preventing the successful integration of migrants or does...