Extract from the Editorial by Nelarine Cornelius and Miguel Martinez Lucio:
Social exclusion and participation issues in relation to immigrant and Black and minority ethnic (BME) and migrant communities have been a major topic of debate in the area of employment relations, cultural studies and urban studies. There is a broad literature dealing with the organisational and social dynamics of exclusion and the economic outcomes of such processes. The fundamental focus of the diversity and equality debates is on the way established institutions increasingly aim to facilitate the roles of BME individuals within political spaces and aspects of the economy such as the labour market and the employing organisation, thus ensuring and regulating fairness. The main focus, for example, in public administration and management studies, has been on the use of remedial legislation and state strategies such as training programmes through public bodies and social actors. The concern with inclusion in social terms is an established academic intervention. Within the area of urban studies, much work has focused on the question of welfare services, the role of the local state and housing issues (for example, Baeten, 2000; Lawless, 2006).
