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Can the idea of mainstreaming help resolve implementation problems and achieve integration goals? Can successful mainstreaming resolve the conundrum that population-naming categories created for social justice purposes in the end undermine those very purposes? This afterword first reflects on the metaphoric character of ‘mainstreaming’, which shifts the focus from ‘bad policy implementation’ to the problematic framing of the issue to begin with, requiring a conceptual stretching that undercuts the good conceptual work it promises. The discussion then turns to one of the central features of evaluating integration policies: the need for categories, and the conundrum entailed in using categories to achieve social justice goals which, in the end, undermine those very purposes.
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Yanow, D. (2018). Afterword: Mainstreaming, Classification, and Language. In: Scholten, P., van Breugel, I. (eds) Mainstreaming Integration Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59277-0_12
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