Globally Competent Governance: Strategies for Building Welcoming and Inclusive Communities [Paperback]

Introduction??1.Globalization, Inclusion, and Leadership??Part I: Immigration as Development??2. Immigration, Immigration, and More Immigration? 3. Liberalizing Immigration for a More Welcoming Community? 4. Globally Competent Leadership and Governance??Part II: Becoming a Welcoming Community??5. Becoming Welcoming? 6. What is a Welcoming and Inclusive Community???Part III: Views from Inside Welcoming Communities??7. Cities, Immigration, and Changing Identity??8. Local Government Inclusivity and Global Competency? 9. Welcoming Communities and Community Services??Part IV : Making a Globally Competent City??10. Making a Globally Competent City? 11. Making Cities Welcoming

Globally Competent Governance explores promising policies and practices developed by local governments and other community leaders across the United States and beyond in their efforts to build welcoming and inclusive communities and globally competent governments.

Michael Guo-Brennan is Associate Professor in Public Administration and Director of the MPA Program in the Department of Political Science at Troy University, Alabama, USA.

Globally Competent Governance explores promising policies and practices developed by local governments and other community leaders across the United States and beyond in their efforts to build welcoming and inclusive communities and globally competent governments.

Cities of the future, be they large, regional metropolitan centers of commerce and political power, regional hubs that service central metropolitan regions, or smaller suburban or rural centers that cater to agriculture or regional commerce, will continue to evolve. Globalization and global mobility have greatly increased the cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and religious diversity ilS*