Local government responses to EU citizens’ integration needs

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7843457
AutoresCecilia Bruzelius (0000-0002-7574-0447, University of Tübingen, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen48
Número9
Páginas2187-2205
Fecha de publicación2022-07-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNew Community (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369183x.2020.1724774
OpenAlexW3006576015
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas23

EU citizens migrating between EU member states are expected to be self-sufficient movers, with little access to social or integration support for the economically inactive. This generates challenges for both migrant EU citizens and local governments in places of destination. The latter are confronted with new social challenges resulting from migration that balances between mobility and settlement. How local governments respond to this crucially shapes EU citizenship and the evolving EU migration system. This paper looks at local responses to migrant EU citizens’ integration needs and how we might understand these. The paper is exploratory and builds on in-depth research in Berlin, Hamburg, Gothenburg and Stockholm conducted in 2015–2016. It demonstrates that responses varied between short-term approaches addressing basic needs and long-term strategies focusing on integration. It argues that the integration strategy identified in Berlin is the result of a national context of bottom-up immigrant policy-making, certain historical experiences of immigration, and, crucially, the work of local policy entrepreneurs

Business · Citizenship · European integration · European union · Geography · Immigration · International trade · Local government · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social integration · Sociology · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Public Administration