same terms. Accepted for publication 11 May 2017 • First published online 20 June 2017 Superdiversity and sub-national autonomous regions: perspectives from the South Tyrolean case Roberta Medda-Windischer, roberta.medda@eurac.edu European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen (EURAC), Italy For many sub-national autonomous territories where traditional-historical groups (‘old minorities’) migration is a stable and increasingly important reality. From the perspective of the autonomous province of Bozen/Bolzano in Italy (South Tyrol), I will analyse whether the interests
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First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this insightful volume brings together contributions from experts across Europe to explore the ways in which superdiversity has shaped the development of policy and to consider challenges for the future.
Drawing on a range of disciplinary, conceptual and theoretical approaches, this book analyses the complex interconnections between social policy formation and implementation in the European Union before and during the UK’s membership. It explores the issues, debates and policy challenges facing the EU at different stages in its development, and shows how the UK promoted and hampered social integration. With the UK’s decision to leave the EU as one of the greatest challenges in the EU’s history, this book seeks to understand the role played by social policy in the referendum campaign and withdrawal negotiations, and considers what Brexit means for social policy development both in the UK and across the EU.
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, as an autonomous territory of Denmark, voted to leave the EC in 1982. After the introduction of home rule in 1979, fearing the loss of their fishing rights (their main source of livelihood) under the Common Fisheries Policy, Greenlanders began the process of leaving the EC. Their exit took place long before John Kerr (2017), a former UK ambassador to the EU, drafted article 50 stipulating the arrangements for leaving the Union. Following three years of tough formal negotiations, Greenland left the EC in 1985 and, today, has a partnership agreement with the
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