Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 282806 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas |
| NOMBRES | Blanca |
| APELLIDO | Garcés-Mascareñas |
| FIRMA | GARCÉS-MASCAREÑAS B |
| AFILIACIONES | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4039-3964 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 464 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Contesting sanctuary
This article examines the emergence and contentious politics of urban sanctuary in Barcelona under a progressive ‘new municipalist’ government. Through document analysis, key informant interviews, participant observation, and media and archival research conducted between 2015 and 2023, it analyses the City of Refuge programme and other local migration policies as sites of multilevel migration governance and political struggle. The article concept…
The making of migration narratives
The ambition of this Special Issue is to articulate a new approach to the study of migration narratives that addresses simultaneously the main gaps of the existing literature by introducing a processual, cross-sectoral and impact-sensitive lens. With this purpose, the article proposes the concept of Migration Narrative Success (MNS) as a bridging and cross-disciplinary tool to facilitate dialogue and knowledge exchange across disciplines and pers…
Our home, your home?’ The precarious housing pathways of asylum seekers in Catalonia
This paper investigates the multi-layered barriers asylum seekers face in accessing secure and adequate housing in a host society through the case of Catalonia (Spain). While the existing literature mainly focuses on the effects of micro-level factors, we argue that these need to be analysed in combination with meso-level actors and macro-structural phenomena. Drawing on an exploratory survey of 300 international protection applicants and 60 semi…
Between Discipline and Neglect
In 2019, Spain had the third highest number of asylum applications in the Europen Union, after Germany and France. The number of asylum applications grew from 31,120 in 2017 to 55,668 in 2018 and 118,264 in 2019. Following this exponential increase, the number of accommodation places in the state reception system has risen almost proportionally. In this changing context, this article seeks to explain the regulation of asylum accommodation in Spai…
Barcelona
This article is a case study of Barcelona’s policy entrepreneurship in innovating refugee reception. In a context of a highly centralised and increasingly dysfunctional Spanish refugee reception system, it traces how Barcelona, after declaring itself a city of refuge, aimed to change refugee reception into a more decentralised and bottom-up system with a major role of cities. Following Minstrom and Norman, the article reconstructs the city’s poli…
The Concept of Integration as an Analytical Tool and as a Policy Concept
This chapter expands on recent approaches to the concept of integration. It defines integration in an open non-normative fashion as “the process of becoming an accepted part of society”. For the study of integration processes and policies a heuristic model is presented encompassing three analytically distinct dimensions in which people may (or may not) become an accepted part of society: (i) the legal-political, (ii) the socio-economic, and (iii)…
Integration Policies of European Cities in Comparative Perspective
This article aims to review the comparative study of integration policies of European cities. The first two sections present an analytical framework for the study of immigrants' integration processes and the policies that intend to steer such processes. The third section outlines how local integration policies have developed in relation to national policies and EU integration policies, particularly after 2003. The fourth and main section analyses…
Integration Processes and Policies in Europe
In this open access book, experts on integration processes, integration policies, transnationalism, and the migration and development framework provide an academic assessment of the 2011 European Agen
Revisiting Bordering Practices
Through a detailed case study of immigration policies in Malaysia, this article examines processes of bordering in a country where physical borders do not seem to play a pivotal role. It describes how, in Malaysia, immigration policies neither focus on border control nor pose strict limits on immigrants' entry but rather seek to curtail immigrants' presence once in the country. The analysis of this “securitization from within” allows us to make t…
Becoming Less Illegal
Over the last two decades, research on unauthorized migration has departed from the equation of migrant illegality with absolute exclusion, emphasizing that formal exclusion typically results in subordinate inclusion. Irregular migrants integrate through informal support networks, the underground economy, and political activities. But they also incorporate into formal institutions, through policy divergence between levels of government, bureaucra…
Migration and Integration Research
Proteccin social de los inmigrantes extranjeros' , in A. Izquierdo (dir.), Inmigracin, mercado de trabajo y proteccin social en Esspaa
Employment and Migrant Deservingness
Working for Legality
Recent programs to regularize undocumented migrants suggest the increasing role of employment as a requirement for foreigners to legally reside in Europe. Taking as illustrations the cases of Spain, France, Austria, Belgium and Germany, this article examines how regularization policies frame work. Employment provisions follow a civic‐performance frame that breaks with the criterion of vulnerability. While secure forms of employment paying standar…
Labour Migration in Malaysia and Spain
Labour Migration in Malaysia and Spain
State regulation of labour migration is confronted with a double paradox. First, while markets require a policy of open borders to fulfill demands for migrant workers, the boundaries of citizenship impose some degree of closure to the outside. Second, while the exclusivity of citizenship requires closed membership, civil and human rights undermine the state's capacity to exclude foreigners once they are in the country. By considering how Malaysia…
Beyond Informal Citizenship
Over the past decades, citizenship studies have explored in detail the various forms of social and civic integration achieved by otherwise illegal residents in contemporary immigration countries. While a great deal of analysis has tended to rest on a dichotomy between formal exclusion on the one hand and informal incorporation on the other, recent studies have begun questioning this dualistic model by examining the formal circuits of incorporatio…
Becoming Less Illegal
Over the last two decades, research on unauthorized migration has departed from the equation of migrant illegality with absolute exclusion, emphasizing that formal exclusion typically results in subordinate inclusion. Irregular migrants integrate through informal support networks, the underground economy, and political activities. But they also incorporate into formal institutions, through policy divergence between levels of government, bureaucra…
Beyond Informal Citizenship
Over the past decades, citizenship studies have explored in detail the various forms of social and civic integration achieved by otherwise illegal residents in contemporary immigration countries. While a great deal of analysis has tended to rest on a dichotomy between formal exclusion on the one hand and informal incorporation on the other, recent studies have begun questioning this dualistic model by examining the formal circuits of incorporatio…
Working for Legality
Recent programs to regularize undocumented migrants suggest the increasing role of employment as a requirement for foreigners to legally reside in Europe. Taking as illustrations the cases of Spain, France, Austria, Belgium and Germany, this article examines how regularization policies frame work. Employment provisions follow a civic‐performance frame that breaks with the criterion of vulnerability. While secure forms of employment paying standar…
Employment and Migrant Deservingness
Barcelona
This article is a case study of Barcelona’s policy entrepreneurship in innovating refugee reception. In a context of a highly centralised and increasingly dysfunctional Spanish refugee reception system, it traces how Barcelona, after declaring itself a city of refuge, aimed to change refugee reception into a more decentralised and bottom-up system with a major role of cities. Following Minstrom and Norman, the article reconstructs the city’s poli…
Revisiting Bordering Practices
Through a detailed case study of immigration policies in Malaysia, this article examines processes of bordering in a country where physical borders do not seem to play a pivotal role. It describes how, in Malaysia, immigration policies neither focus on border control nor pose strict limits on immigrants' entry but rather seek to curtail immigrants' presence once in the country. The analysis of this “securitization from within” allows us to make t…
Between Discipline and Neglect
In 2019, Spain had the third highest number of asylum applications in the Europen Union, after Germany and France. The number of asylum applications grew from 31,120 in 2017 to 55,668 in 2018 and 118,264 in 2019. Following this exponential increase, the number of accommodation places in the state reception system has risen almost proportionally. In this changing context, this article seeks to explain the regulation of asylum accommodation in Spai…
The making of migration narratives
The ambition of this Special Issue is to articulate a new approach to the study of migration narratives that addresses simultaneously the main gaps of the existing literature by introducing a processual, cross-sectoral and impact-sensitive lens. With this purpose, the article proposes the concept of Migration Narrative Success (MNS) as a bridging and cross-disciplinary tool to facilitate dialogue and knowledge exchange across disciplines and pers…
Our home, your home?’ The precarious housing pathways of asylum seekers in Catalonia
This paper investigates the multi-layered barriers asylum seekers face in accessing secure and adequate housing in a host society through the case of Catalonia (Spain). While the existing literature mainly focuses on the effects of micro-level factors, we argue that these need to be analysed in combination with meso-level actors and macro-structural phenomena. Drawing on an exploratory survey of 300 international protection applicants and 60 semi…
Labour Migration in Malaysia and Spain
Labour Migration in Malaysia and Spain
State regulation of labour migration is confronted with a double paradox. First, while markets require a policy of open borders to fulfill demands for migrant workers, the boundaries of citizenship impose some degree of closure to the outside. Second, while the exclusivity of citizenship requires closed membership, civil and human rights undermine the state's capacity to exclude foreigners once they are in the country. By considering how Malaysia…
Beyond Informal Citizenship
Over the past decades, citizenship studies have explored in detail the various forms of social and civic integration achieved by otherwise illegal residents in contemporary immigration countries. While a great deal of analysis has tended to rest on a dichotomy between formal exclusion on the one hand and informal incorporation on the other, recent studies have begun questioning this dualistic model by examining the formal circuits of incorporatio…
Migration and Integration Research
Proteccin social de los inmigrantes extranjeros' , in A. Izquierdo (dir.), Inmigracin, mercado de trabajo y proteccin social en Esspaa
Employment and Migrant Deservingness
Working for Legality
Recent programs to regularize undocumented migrants suggest the increasing role of employment as a requirement for foreigners to legally reside in Europe. Taking as illustrations the cases of Spain, France, Austria, Belgium and Germany, this article examines how regularization policies frame work. Employment provisions follow a civic‐performance frame that breaks with the criterion of vulnerability. While secure forms of employment paying standar…
Becoming Less Illegal
Over the last two decades, research on unauthorized migration has departed from the equation of migrant illegality with absolute exclusion, emphasizing that formal exclusion typically results in subordinate inclusion. Irregular migrants integrate through informal support networks, the underground economy, and political activities. But they also incorporate into formal institutions, through policy divergence between levels of government, bureaucra…
Revisiting Bordering Practices
Through a detailed case study of immigration policies in Malaysia, this article examines processes of bordering in a country where physical borders do not seem to play a pivotal role. It describes how, in Malaysia, immigration policies neither focus on border control nor pose strict limits on immigrants' entry but rather seek to curtail immigrants' presence once in the country. The analysis of this “securitization from within” allows us to make t…
The Concept of Integration as an Analytical Tool and as a Policy Concept
This chapter expands on recent approaches to the concept of integration. It defines integration in an open non-normative fashion as “the process of becoming an accepted part of society”. For the study of integration processes and policies a heuristic model is presented encompassing three analytically distinct dimensions in which people may (or may not) become an accepted part of society: (i) the legal-political, (ii) the socio-economic, and (iii)…
Integration Policies of European Cities in Comparative Perspective
This article aims to review the comparative study of integration policies of European cities. The first two sections present an analytical framework for the study of immigrants' integration processes and the policies that intend to steer such processes. The third section outlines how local integration policies have developed in relation to national policies and EU integration policies, particularly after 2003. The fourth and main section analyses…
Integration Processes and Policies in Europe
In this open access book, experts on integration processes, integration policies, transnationalism, and the migration and development framework provide an academic assessment of the 2011 European Agen
Barcelona
This article is a case study of Barcelona’s policy entrepreneurship in innovating refugee reception. In a context of a highly centralised and increasingly dysfunctional Spanish refugee reception system, it traces how Barcelona, after declaring itself a city of refuge, aimed to change refugee reception into a more decentralised and bottom-up system with a major role of cities. Following Minstrom and Norman, the article reconstructs the city’s poli…
Between Discipline and Neglect
In 2019, Spain had the third highest number of asylum applications in the Europen Union, after Germany and France. The number of asylum applications grew from 31,120 in 2017 to 55,668 in 2018 and 118,264 in 2019. Following this exponential increase, the number of accommodation places in the state reception system has risen almost proportionally. In this changing context, this article seeks to explain the regulation of asylum accommodation in Spai…
Our home, your home?’ The precarious housing pathways of asylum seekers in Catalonia
This paper investigates the multi-layered barriers asylum seekers face in accessing secure and adequate housing in a host society through the case of Catalonia (Spain). While the existing literature mainly focuses on the effects of micro-level factors, we argue that these need to be analysed in combination with meso-level actors and macro-structural phenomena. Drawing on an exploratory survey of 300 international protection applicants and 60 semi…
The making of migration narratives
The ambition of this Special Issue is to articulate a new approach to the study of migration narratives that addresses simultaneously the main gaps of the existing literature by introducing a processual, cross-sectoral and impact-sensitive lens. With this purpose, the article proposes the concept of Migration Narrative Success (MNS) as a bridging and cross-disciplinary tool to facilitate dialogue and knowledge exchange across disciplines and pers…
Contesting sanctuary
This article examines the emergence and contentious politics of urban sanctuary in Barcelona under a progressive ‘new municipalist’ government. Through document analysis, key informant interviews, participant observation, and media and archival research conducted between 2015 and 2023, it analyses the City of Refuge programme and other local migration policies as sites of multilevel migration governance and political struggle. The article concept…
Migration and Labor Dynamics (12 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (11 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Economics (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Geography (7 obras) · Politics (6 obras) · Citizenship (5 obras) · Economic geography (4 obras)