Yet, comparison across neighbourhoods, as well as of a cross-city/cross-national kind, appears of the utmost relevance in order to provide a fresh outlook on the local dimension of migration policy and policy-making, especially by illuminating the interplay between public policy, private actors and civil society, too often obscured in more institutionalist, municipality-based, analyses.
The Future of England: the local dimension, is available from the IPPR.
From this point of view, the local dimension is particularly important to stimulate the participation and direct commitment of citizens.
Because of this localization, changes of the local dimensions are largest in the neck, where the local strain exceeds the macroscopic strains.
Yet very little is known about the local dimension of immigrant policymaking in crisis contexts.
The local dimension of integration policy is also acknowledged at the European level, where more efforts are being made to promote knowledge exchanges between cities, for example the CLIP project and the EuroCities network.
It recognises the local dimension of migration, integration and diversity policies, and shares the observation that cities, and indeed neighbourhoods, have become increasingly active in devising and implementing immigrant policies.
I have asked to take the floor because, last year, I was rapporteur for a report dealing with the local dimension of the European Employment Strategy.
Then, a flexible laser-aided pattern is designed, and a high-precision feature extraction method based on a region-of-interest (ROI) is developed, by which the local dimensions of large objects acquired from different views can be transformed into the same coordinate system to complete the measurement of the object's overall dimensions.
