Booklets “Diversity Creates Future” by some cities in the Ruhr area

Policy Response DateMay 30, 2010 Country: Germany General Type: Discrimination, Equality/Integration Racism and discrimination phenomena: Anti-migrant/xenophobia
Groups affected / Interested in: Migrants, Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities, National minorities Key socio-economic/institutional areas: Employment - labour market, Anti-discrimination, Integration - social cohesion, Daily life

“As a result of their project “Communities as Sustainable Employers”, the cities involved in the “Intercultural Region of Cities in the Ruhr area”, summarised their approaches and recommendations in a series of guideline booklets called “Diversity Creates Future”.
Searching for possible solutions to problems such as demographic change, integration, finance, personnel management and collaboration in the educational and professional market, numerous experts of different fields (e.g. businesses, migrant organisations) were involved in the compilation of the booklets. The series encompasses five individual documents on different themes, which together give an account of the diversity of the employees and related challenges for the public service in communities. Booklet 3, for instance, is devoted to the target group of young talented individuals with a history of migration and offers numerous practical ideas on how to address this group more pointedly and increase the number of young migrants in public administration. The booklets are downloadable online for free and are meant to serve as a source of practical information on, amongst other, how to alter the recruitment process in order to foster cultural diversity in the municipal administrations” (Peucker 2010, p. 52).

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