ICEC Final Conference and ‘Results at a Glance’ Posters
Presented at the final ICEC conference in Vienna in May 2017, the posters summarise the key findings of the project in two languages (Swedish and Dutch to follow). Click the thumbnails to download the posters as a pdf file.
The slides from the presentations given during the course of the ICEC final conference can be downloaded below as pdfs (in German).
Comparative Cross-City Report

Comparative Cross-City Report DOWNLOAD
Neighbourhood Initiatives and Belonging in Super‐diverse Neighbourhoods in Amsterdam and Vienna: A comparative and applied‐oriented analysis of neighbourhood‐related policies
ICEC is based on a systematic comparison of the aims, structural features and outcomes of integrativeinitiatives at the neighbourhood level in Amsterdam, Stockholm and Vienna. This cross-city comparison focuses on similarities and differences in Amsterdam and Vienna.
The selected initiatives in this analysis are designed to function as a ‘space of encounter’ for neighbourhood residents and provide activities that offer the opportunity for interethnic and – more generally – intergroup contacts. Initiatives in this report include integration measures that explicitly focus on the neighbourhood (place-based) and those where the location in the case study neighbourhood is rather incidental (people-based).
Julia Dahlvik – Austrian Academy of Sciences
Yvonne Franz – Austrian Academy of Sciences
Myrte Hoekstra – University of Amsterdam
Josef Kohlbacher – Austrian Academy of Sciences
Newsletter
The ICEC newsletter aims to keep people interested in the project and the work we are doing up-to-date. Our first newsletter (published Oct. 2014) offers an overview of the project, what we are trying to do and how. Our second (published Feb. 2015) provides an insight into our ongoing fieldwork.

Newsletter #1: Introducing the Project Oct 2014

Newsletter #2: Notes from the Field Feb 2015

Newsletter #3: Speaking one language?
Dec 2015, DOI

Newsletter #4: Towards a better understanding of “interethnic coxistence”
Aug 2016 DOI
Baseline Reports: Superdiversity and Urban Policies
These reports lay the foundation for an analysis on how cities can promote interethnic coexistence in the local context and which political measures are the most approriate for strengthening the urban neighbourhood as an integrative place of living and identification of a diverse urban population. The reports are largely descriptive, aiming to provide a detailed account of each city’s diverse population in the context of immigration and how the city’s administration and political actors have developed urban policies dealing with diversity. These ICEC reports present basic yet relevant information that will be the foundation to the research and answering ICEC’s main research questions. 0xc1aa500e 0x003443d5
Amsterdam: Hoekstra, M. (2014) Super-diversity and urban policies in Amsterdam. ICEC Baseline Study. DOI: 0xc1aa500e 0x003427d4
Stockholm: Karlsson, S., Engkvist, R., Rauhut, D., Moberg, U. & M. Johansson (2014) Super-diversity and urban policies in Stockholm. ICEC Baseline Study.
Vienna: Kohlbacher, J., Schnell, P., Reeger, U. & Y. Franz (2014) Super-diversity and urban policies in Vienna. ICEC Baseline Study.
Papers and Chapters
Hoekstra, M. (2015): Diverse cities and good citizenship: how local governments in the Netherlands recast national integration discourse, Ethnic and Racial Studies 2015
Franz, Y. (2015) Designing social living labs in urban research, info, 17:4, pp.53 – 66
Franz, Y. (2014): Chances and Challenges for Social Urban Living Labs in Urban Research. In: ENoLL – European Network of Living Labs (2014): Conference Proceedings of Open Living Lab Days 2014. 105-114. ISBN: 9789082102727. [Awarded ‘Best Paper‘ at the ENoLL Conference 2014]
Franz, Y., Tausz, K., & Thiel, S. – K. 2015. Contextuality and Co-Creation Matter: A Qualitative Case Study Comparison of Living Lab Concepts in Urban Research. Technology Innovation Management Review, 5(12): 48-55
ICEC related publications from Team members:
Dukes, T. & S. Musterd (2012) Towards Social Cohesion: Bridging National Integration Rhetoric and Local Practice: The Case of the Netherlands. Urban Studies 49(9), pp. 1981-1997.
Fassmann, H. & Y. Franz (Eds.)(2010) Integration Policies at the Local Level: Housing Policies for Migrants. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press.
Franz, Yvonne (2015) Designing social living labs in urban research, info, 17:4, pp.53 – 66
Myrte Hoekstra (2015): Diverse cities and good citizenship: how local governments in the Netherlands recast national integration discourse, Ethnic and Racial Studies 2015
Kohlbacher, J., Reeger, U. & P. Schnell (2012) Neighbourhood Embeddedness and Social Coexistence. Immigrants and Natives in three urban settings in Vienna. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press.
Kohlbacher, J., Reeger, U. & P. Schnell (2014). Place attachment and social ties – migrants and natives in three urban settings in Vienna. Population, Space and Place. doi:10.1002/psp.1923.
Kohlbacher, J. and U. Reeger (2010) Housing Integration of Immigrants in Vienna – Equal Opportunities?. In: H. Fassmann & Y. Franz (Eds.) Integration Policies at the Local Level: Housing Policies for Migrants. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press.
Musterd, S. (2012) Ethnic Residential Segregation; Reflections on Concepts, Levels and Effects. In: D.F. Clapham, W.A.V. Clark & K. Gibb (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Housing Studies. Los Angeles, London etc. : SAGE, pp. 419-438.
Musterd, Sako & Wim Ostendorf (2009) Spatial Segregation and Integration in the Netherlands. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 35(9), pp. 1515-1532.
Musterd, S. & R. van Kempen (2009) Segregation and Housing of Minority Ethnic Groups in Western European Cities. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 100(3),pp. 559-566.
Musterd, S. & S. de Vos (2007) Residential Dynamics in Ethnic Concentrations. Housing Studies, 22(3), pp. 333 – 353.
Pinkster, F.M. (2014) “I just live here”: Everyday practices of disaffiliation of middle-class households in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Urban Studies 44(13), pp. 2587-2603.
Schnell, P., Kohlbacher, J. and U. Reeger (2012) Neighbourhood embeddedness in six European cities: Differences between neighbourhood types and immigrant background. Polish Sociological Review 180 (4): 523-544.
Schnell, P., Kohlbacher, J. and U. Reeger (2015). “Network Embeddedness of Migrants: Exploring Variations Across three Neighbourhoods in Vienna”. In: Migrant Capital: Networks, Identities and Strategies, edited by L. Ryan, U. Erel and A. D`Angelo. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.