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dc.contributor.authorTakle, Marianne
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-30T13:42:04Z
dc.date.available2015-09-12T02:03:11Z
dc.date.issued2014-09-12
dc.identifier.citationTakle, M. (2014). Institutional Design and Political Representation: the Council of Immigrant Organisations in Oslo. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 1-17.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1488-3473
dc.identifier.otherFRIDAID 1156650
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10642/2342
dc.description.abstractThe city of Oslo has established a council of immigrant organisations (CIO). The city has designed CIO to have a double mandate: one from the city of Oslo and one from the immigrant organisations. The question raised in this article is how the city of Oslo’s design of CIO has an impact on its form of representation, its activities and its political position within local government. The article finds that CIO can legitimately claim to be a local council as the local authorities decide its main tasks and appoint the leader. CIO can also claim to be democratically representative as it is elected by the immigrant organisations. This gives CIO a choice of action, which it has used to develop its own activities independently of the city of Oslo and the organisations it represents. CIO’s activities are mainly to change the underlying majority way of thinking in the established state and municipal institutions, with the aim of adapting them to the minorities’ lives and cultures. Moreover, the article finds that the local authorities cannot implement a redesign without approval from CIO members. The authorities may decide to close CIO down by arguing that it does not produce the expected results, but this is problematic as long as CIO also is a descriptive representative council. The article concludes that CIO’s design gives it an ambiguous form of representation and choice of action, and that the political attempts to steer CIO confirms its ambiguous position within the local government.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal of International Migration and Integration;
dc.subjectInstitutional designen_US
dc.subjectPolitical representationen_US
dc.subjectIntegrationen_US
dc.subjectAdaptation strategiesen_US
dc.subjectImmigrant organisationsen_US
dc.subjectMinoritiesen_US
dc.titleInstitutional Design and Political Representation: the Council of Immigrant Organisations in Osloen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.description.versionThis is a postprint version of a published article. The original is available at www.springerlink.comen_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12134-014-0375-z


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