01525pab a2200157 454500008004000000100002700040245010300067260000900170300001500179362000800194520105500202650002101257650001601278650002101294773005201315180718b2017   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aZapata-Barrero, Ricard  aIntercultural policy and multi-level governance in Barcelona: mainstreaming comprehensive approach  c2017  ap.247-266.  aJun  aThe main purpose of this article is to analyse Barcelona's mainstreaming approach to intercultural policy from the beginning of its immigration process. My key questions are threefold: (a) why was Barcelona attracted by the intercultural approach so early in 1997? (b) how can we understand the consolidation of interculturalism? and (c) how can its successful permanent endurance (16 years) be explained, given different migratory contexts/political governments? I will argue that Barcelona's status as a key player within the multi-level system of Catalan and Spanish governance has been a favourable key factor. I will first feature the mainstreaming approach, and then defend the argument that the vertical dimension has helped to strengthen the legitimacy of the horizontal dimension, as it has provided a favourable environment in which interculturalism can flourish. I conclude by highlighting the fact that the analysis of Barcelona helps to provide new meanings for the multi-level governance debate in diverse European cities. - Reproduced.  aInterculturalism  aImmigration  aLocal government  aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences