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Managing Diversity in Spanish Society: A Practical Approach
Ricard Zapata-Barrero

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Vol. 31, No. 4, August 2010, pp. 383Á402

Managing Diversity in Spanish Society:
A Practical Approach
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Ricard Zapata-Barrero

This paper examines the main elements of Spanish diversity management and
specifically its philosophy. It defends the argument that Spain follows a practical
philosophy. ‘Practical philosophy’ refers to a way of managing diversity which is not
based on established and preconceived ideas, projected by its ownsocial construction such
as French republicanism or British multiculturalism, but rather on questions and
answers generated by the practice of governance of diversity. The Spanish practical
philosophy is neither universalistic nor closed by rigid theoretical principles. At this point,
the problem emerges when this context acts as a restraint for proactive policies, since it is
based on anidentity, a history and a structure that impede innovation and change.
The first section of the paper describes the Spanish diversity management framework, by
focusing on the identity, the historical and the structural contexts. The second section,
analyses three main policy realms Á education, labour market and political rights policy
realms Á applying the framework discussed in the first section.Finally, I present an
outline of the basic elements of the Spanish ‘practical philosophy’ of diversity
management.
Keywords: Citizenship; Diversity; Integration; Multiculturalism; Multinationalism;
Practical Philosophy; Spain

Dr Ricard Zapata-Barrero is associate professor of political theory at the Department of Political and Social
Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His researchinterests explore contemporary issues of liberal democracy in
the contexts of diversity, in particular, the relationship between democracy, citizenship and immigration. He is
Director of the GRITIM (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration) and the Master Programme on
Immigration Management at UPF. He is a Partner of the recently funded EU 7th Framework, 18-country
ACCEPT project: Tolerance,...