Thursday, June 27, 2013
A1.18D (Oudemanhuispoort)
This article focuses on the relation between knowledge production and knowledge utilisation in the field of migrant integration in five European countries (Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK) and on the EU level. It aims to go beyond the differentiation between studies of either knowledge utilisation or knowledge, by analysing how the production of knowledge claims about migrant integration may in fact be conditioned by context of knowledge utilization, such as the policy and political context. It focuses on three central mechanisms in the connection between knowledge utilization and –production: the growing recognition of uncertainty of scientific knowledge, the contextuality of knowledge claims, and growing reflexivity on the part of policymakers and citizens in terms of discussing knowledge claims. It will show that the ‘coproduction’ of knowledge in national settings, as in the persistence of national models in some countries, has declined over the past decade or so. This seems to be a reflection of the growing influence of EU level research as well as a more autonomous process of growing interest for comparative research and internationalization of the research community.
