Challenging the Paradoxes of Integration Policies: Latin Americans in the European City

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- The geopolitical context of the "new migration" in Europe and the challenges of integration.- A critical approach to the notion of integration and its use in policy.- Urban diversity and the scope of multiculturalism.- Transnationalism and interculturalism as patterns of integration in a global perspective.- Amsterdam's political pillars of diversity.- London, global city and "Superdiversity".- Madrid's intercultural perspective.- The limits of citizenship as a strategy for integration.- Europe in the context of Latin-American international migrations.- Latin Americans as a new immigrant group at the beginning of the twenty first century.- Latino trajectories in the European city: Amsterdam, London and Madrid.- Latin Americans confronting integration policies.- Transnationalism and integration synergies.- The ambiguities surrounding "migratory status" in integration processes.- The city as a refuge: space, coexistence and agency.- Conclusions.- Bibliography.