Le paradoxe de la diversité : développement économique et stratification sociale dans les villes de développement en Israël

• Main Author: Amandine Desille
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française 2019-05-01
• Series: Sociologies
• Subjects: Israel; diversity; ordinary cities; immigration; local policies
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/sociologies/10950

The “diversity” approach has recently been introduced within the context of local immigrant integration policies in Northern America, Europe (Schiller 2016), and more recently in Israel. This approach implies that ethnic diversity can be leveraged and become a tool for socio-economic restructuring and urban development. Nevertheless, the diversity/urban development nexus, when implemented through neoliberal urban policies (that is, policies that respond to immediate economic growth interests) comes with the risk of dissimulating and even reinscribing the effects of a certain ethnic stratification, that is pronounced in the Israeli society. In this article, analyzing the local diversity policies made by three “development towns” – Acre, Arad and Kiryat Shmona – we show the extent to which the diversity doctrine is in tension with the ethno-national frame governing integration stakes, even though it eventually succeeds in accommodating the latter.