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Diversity and Integration
Europe has a long and varied history of inwards migration, which has helped to contribute to the culturally and socially rich societies we see today. But in recent years, the pace and complexity of change has increased, such that new approaches are needed to managing the diversity that has resulted. This is made even more urgent by the current economic situation, which puts a strain on resources and runs the danger of dividing communities.
ISD’s work in this area seeks to enhance understanding of the drivers of polarisation; advocate for solutions at the strategic, political, policy and practical levels; improve understanding of what works; fill institutional and structural gaps by fostering new partnerships, transformative networks or fledgling organisations; and develop new narratives that will underpin a long-term and sustainable response to social polarisation.
This area of work includes the following projects and initiatives:
Phoenix: An Inter-Community Initiative
Phoenix explores the moral, philosophical and practical underpinnings for developing a more robust and confident centre ground capable of marginalising different ideological extremes.
More about Phoenix: An Inter-Community InitiativeCOMPAS Breakfast Briefings
COMPAS seeks to make available and discuss topical, cutting edge research on migration and migration related issues.
More about COMPAS Breakfast BriefingsIntegration: What Works?
Drawing on an existing body of work, ISD is developing an evaluation tool tailored to the specific needs of cohesion and integration projects and initiatives.
Impact of Counter-Terrorism on Communities
This Europe-wide scoping study aims to bring together key stakeholders and experts from Western European countries to explore the potential for a multi-country study of the impacts of current counter-terrorism policies and practices, with a particular focus on their impact on racial, ethnic and/or religious minorities.
Social Media and Intolerance
This experimental action research project seeks to understand the impact of social media on attitudes and intolerance in Europe and explore the levers of change to allow these views to be tackled through social media channels.
Muslims in the European Mediascape
This research project, which will include interviews in France, the UK and Germany, will also investigate diversity of media production and programming and its relationship to inter-community attitudes.
CEDAR
CEDAR is a pan European network of Muslim professionals working to generate a culture of success and leadership amongst Europe’s diverse communities.
COMPAS Breakfast Briefing, in partnership with ISD
Are potential supporters of the English Defence League economic losers, protestors, Islamophobes or xenophobes?
10 May 2013
Combining Freedom and Diversity Conference
3 - 5 May 2013
University of Oxford
COMPAS Breakfast Briefing, in partnership with ISD
With a lot of help from my friends: How do migrants use social networks to access jobs?
12 April 2013
London
COMPAS Breakfast Briefing, in partnership with ISD
What are the migration pathways of UK graduates?
8 March 2013
ISD, London
All Diversity and Integration events
Research and Policy Papers
Social Media for Social Change: Using the Internet to Tackle Intolerance
Hannah Taylor, December 2012
This report outlines the findings of an action research project carried out by the ISD and funded by the Open Society Foundations (OSF). It describes the results of a pilot social media campaign, draws conclusions about the influence of social media on attitudes, and makes recommendations for policy makers, politicians and civil society organisations on the ways in which these technologies can be used to tackle intolerance.
COMPAS Breakfast Briefing Summary: What Works in Integration?
October 2012
This paper was released to accompany the second COMPAS Breakfast Briefing held in partnership with ISD, and sets out initial findings from ISD's research project 'Integration: What Works?'.
Impact of Counter-Terrorism on Communities: UK Background Report
Tufyal Choudhury, September 2012
This background paper lays the groundwork for future research on the impact of counter-terrorism policies on minority communities in the UK.
Impact of Counter-Terrorism on Communities: Germany Background Report
Prof Eckhard Jesse and Dr Tom Mannewitz, September 2012
This background paper lays the groundwork for future research on the impact of counter-terrorism policies on minority communities in Germany.
Impact of Counter-Terrorism on Communities: Sweden Background Report
Vidhya Ramalingam, September 2012
This background paper lays the groundwork for future research on the impact of counter-terrorism policies on minority communities in Sweden.
Impact of Counter-Terrorism on Communities: Netherlands Background Report
Quirine Eijkman, Doutje Lettinga and Gijs Verbossen, September 2012
This background paper lays the groundwork for future research on the impact of counter-terrorism policies on minority communities in the Netherlands.
Impact of Counter-Terrorism on Communities: France Background Report
Dr Raphaelle Camilleri, September 2012
This background paper lays the groundwork for future research on the impact of counter-terrorism policies on minority communities in France.
Impact of Counter-Terrorism on Communities: Denmark Background Report
Lasse Lindekilde and Mark Sedgwick, September 2012
This background paper lays the groundwork for future research on the impact of counter-terrorism policies on minority communities in Denmark.
Impact of Counter-Terrorism on Communities: Methodology Report
Basia Spalek, Zubeda Limbada, Laura Zahra McDonald, Dan Silk and Raquel da Silva, September 2012
This methodology paper lays the groundwork for future research on the impact of counter-terrorism policies on minority communities.
Muslims in the European Mediascape (German/Deutsch)
April 2012
The final in a series of papers for the 'Muslims in the European Mediascape' research project, conducted in partnership with the British Council and Vodafone Foundation, Germany. German/Deutsch version.
Muslims in the European Mediascape
April 2012
The final in a series of papers for the 'Muslims in the European Mediascape' research project, conducted in partnership with the British Council and Vodafone Foundation, Germany.
Muslims in the European Mediascape: Germany Country Report
Jörg Heeren, Prof. Andreas Zick, April 2012
The Germany-focused report of the Muslims in the European Mediascape series.
Muslims in the European Mediascape: UK Country Report
Dr Siobhan Holohan, Dr Elizabeth Poole, April 2012
The UK-focused report of the Muslims in the European Mediascape series.
Integration and Cohesion in Europe: An Overview
Nick Johnson, April 2012
This briefing paper was commissioned as part of ISD's Integration: What Works? project.
Using Social Media to Tackle Intolerance: Literature Review
April 2012
This literature review was produced to summarise existing knowledge on the role of social media in influencing social attitudes, particularly in relation to inter-group dynamics, as part of ISD's 'Social Media and Intolerance' project.
Muslims in the European Mediascape: Discussion Paper
Dr Monica Metykova, December 2010
The first in a series of papers for the 'Muslims in the European Mediascape' research project, conducted in partnership with the British Council's Our Shared Europe Project and the Vodafone Foundation, Germany.
Muslims in the European Mediascape: Integration and Social Cohesion Dynamics
M100 Colloquium, September 2009
Based on interviews in Germany, France and the UK, this research explores patterns of media consumption amongst European Muslims and the portrayal of Muslims within mainstream European media. Its findings served as the basis for discussions at the 2009 M100 Sanssouci Colloquium.
Summary Reports
Integration- What Works? Expert Practitioner Roundtable
May 2012
This roundtable report is drawn from discussions held in April at ISD as part of the 'Integration: What Works?' project.
