Ricard Zapata-Barrero is Senior Professor and teaches at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona-Catalonia). His main lines of research deal with contemporary issues of liberal democracy in contexts of diversity, especially the relationship between democracy, citizenship, human mobility and immigration. He is director of GRITIM-UPF (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration) and the Master Programme on Migration Studies . He is member of the Board of Directors of the largest research network on Immigration in Europe IMISCOE, and lead two Standing Groups according to its lines of research related to Cities and Multi-level Governance, and Diversity and Cultural policy. He is a member of several European projects, among others, current “Diasporalink Transnational Diaspora Entrepreneurship as a Development Link between Home and Residence” (2015-2018, H2020-MSCA-RISE-2014). He founded the Intercultural Cities Network in Spain in 2014 (now composed by 16 cities), as he is expert of the intercultural cities program of the Council of Europe since 2008. He is also member of editorial boards of several academic journals, and of several government advisory boards, and occasional contributor to media and policy debates.

Recent publications (selection):

• Last article published in August 2017 “Interculturalism in the Post-Multicultural debate: A Defense.” Comparative Migration Studies  5  (September): 14, doi: 10.1186/s40878-017-0057-z. Key article of a Special Issue on Multiculturalism and Interculturalism, Guest Editors: Patrick Loobuyck and François Levrau. 
• (Special issue) (2017) Diversity incorporation in the cultural policy mainstream: Exploring the main frameworks and approaches bridging cultural and migration studies, Special Issue in Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, (co-edited with Wiebke Sievers and Marco Martiniello), 8 (1) 

I have also an article: “How does interculturalism facilitate diversity incorporation into the cultural policy mainstream? Montreal’s case study”, Special Issue of Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, 8, (1), pp. 31-48.

• (Art.) (2017). “The Intercultural Turn in Europe: Process of Policy Paradigm Change and Formation”, in F. Mansouri (ed.), The Promise and Challenge of Intercultural Dialogue: From Theory to Policy and Practice, Paris: Unesco Publishers; Chapter 4, pp. 169-193.

• (Special issue) (2017) Immigrant Incorporation in Political Parties: Exploring the Diversity Gap, Ricard-Zapata-Barrero, Iris Dähnke and Lea Markard  (eds.) in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 40, Issue 5.April 2017   (Rouledge offered us to publish the recent special issue as a hardback book, as part of the Routledge Special Issues as Books (SPIBs) programme, and as part of the Ethnic and Racial Studies book series)

I have written (on-line first published end 2016):

• “Introduction: Background, framework and focus the special issue” (with L. Markand and I. Dähnke) DOI:10.1080/01419870.2016.1259493
• “How do political parties deal with the ‘diversity gap’: democratic deficits and party strategies” DOI:10.1080/01419870.2016.1259486 [this is the overview of literature and theoretical framework of the Special Issue)
• “From participation to confinement: Challenges for immigrants’ incorporation in political parties in Spain”  ​ (with Flora Burchianti) DOI:10.1080/01419870.2016.1259488

• (Art.) (2017) “Monitoring discriminatory political discourse: A pilot study in Catalonia”, Discourse and Society, (co-authored with Gemma Rubio-Carbonero), Vol 28, Issue 2; 1-22. 

• (Special issue) (2017) Symposium on Theorizing ‘the local turn’ in the governance of immigrant policies: a multi-level approach. Guest Editors: Ricard Zapata-Barrero, Tiziana Caponio and Peter Scholten, International Review of Administrative Sciences (IRAS), Volume 83 Number 2 June 2017. The print copy will be ready in French and in English.

I have written (on-line first in 2015 and 2016)

• Introduction: Theorizing the ‘local turn’ in a multi-level governance framework of analysis. A case study in immigrant policies (with Tiziana Caponio and Peter Scholten)
• “Multi-level intercultural governance in Barcelona: mainstreaming comprehensive approach”, DOI: 10.1177/0020852315592962

• (Book) (2016) (eds) Interculturalism and Multiculturalism: debating the dividing lines (with Nasar Meer and Tariq Modood). Edinburgh University Press (I have two contributions: Introduction with N. Meer and T. Modood: “A Plural Century: Situating Interculturalism and Multiculturalism” and Chapter 3: “Theorising Intercultural Citizenship”].

• (Art.) (2016) “Diversity and cultural policy: cultural citizenship as a tool for inclusion”,  International Journal of Cultural Policy Vol. 22 (4), pp. 534-552

• (Book) (2015) (ed.) Interculturalism in Cities: Concept, Policy and Implementation. Cheltenham: Edward-Elgar Publishing  Book directly related to a joint-project financed by Fundación “La Caixa” and the Intercultural Cities programme of the Council of Europe.        I have written:

• “Introduction: Framing the Intercultural Turn , viii-xv
• “Interculturalism: Main Hypothesis, Theories and Strands”, 3-19 (Chapter 1)
• “Conclusions: Three building blocks for taking interculturalism seriously”, 185-196

• (Art.) (2014). “The Limits to Shaping Diversity as Public Culture: Permanent Festivities in Barcelona”, Cities, 37, 66-72.