ABSTRACT
The chapter begins by arguing that interculturalism is a pragmatic policy response to the city’s social concerns and plans about immigration-related equality and diversity. Its point of departure is the diagnosis that most of the city’s living-together problems originate in the lack of interaction among people from different national and cultural backgrounds, including citizens. Anchored in this origin we can identify the distinctive features of intercultural policies. We address first the relationship between the concept and the policy (as a city policy paradigm of diversity management it is a policy of proximity that has problem-solving, performative and normative dimensions), and the policy and its implementation which seeks to positively link diversity and community cohesion.
