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Innovative strategies for the reception of asylum seekers and refugees in European cities: multi-level governance, multi-sector urban networks and local engagement
- Source :
- Comparative Migration Studies, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2020), Comparative Migration Studies, 8(30), 1
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer, 2020.
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Abstract
- Cities are taking a prominent role in solving global challenges, with a ‘new localism’ inviting a reorientation of power from nation-states downwards, outwards and globally. This special issue explores this phenomenon through extending the existing analyses of multi-level governance and the ‘local turn’ to the underexplored area of asylum seeker and refugee reception in European cities. The special issue draws on research in European cities where new strategies were piloted especially in the wake of ‘the refugee crisis’ from 2015, consolidating the ‘local turn’ evident in immigration and integration policy-making. The collection is in two parts: the first part explores innovation in local governance of asylum seeker reception. Here, case studies demonstrate how cities responded through forging new alliances both vertically and (especially) horizontally in networks within and between cities. The second part explores innovation in practice, analysing novel initiatives premised on local engagement and inclusivity of newcomers within the social fabric of the city. This editorial paper draws out the wider lessons of efforts from this comparative exploration of attempts to rethink asylum seeker and refugee reception at the local level.
- Subjects :
- Multi-level governance
Sociology and Political Science
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Refugee
Asylum seekers
Geography, Planning and Development
Immigration
Social Sciences(all)
Public administration
asylum reception
lcsh:Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
lcsh:Social Sciences
Power (social and political)
lcsh:HT51-1595
Phenomenon
Political science
0502 economics and business
050602 political science & public administration
special issue
Urban
lcsh:HT101-395
Multi-sector governance
Localism
Cities
Migration
Demography
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Refugees
Corporate governance
05 social sciences
local engagement
innovation
lcsh:HT201-221
0506 political science
lcsh:H
Europe
introduction
lcsh:Communities. Classes. Races
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Networks
Asylum seeker
Law
lcsh:City population. Including children in cities, immigration
050203 business & management
Reception
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Comparative Migration Studies, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2020), Comparative Migration Studies, 8(30), 1
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5f00f7be4ca1ee585ed45f29dbb1c44c