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Collectiv work : Multicultural local/district life : what are the possibilities to face the other? (march 1999)

The 'Réseau Cultures Europe' (Europe Culture Network) has implemented a programme in order to connect people living or acting in multicultural urban neighbourhoods. It is under this programme that they organised a meeting gathering various neighbourhood co-ordinators in order to go further into questions about multicultural experiences : Can a lack of intercultural understanding lead to a cultural or ethnic 'apartheid', spontaneous that reinforces prejudices ? Are these leading to tensions and conflicts ? Can they be the ground for political manipulations ?
This document explains the methodology used for exploring these themes and tries to answer these questions. In the first chapter, participants share their daily experiences and their perceptions of their meanings. In the second chapter, a series of initiatives (implemented by the co-ordinators) are exposed and commented. In the third chapter, the author proposes a synthesis of the outcomes and an analysis of the implications.