Insurgent Asylum Policies in European Cities

A Multi-Level Governance Perspective

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8039399
AutoresRaffaele Bazurli (0000-0003-1975-1317, Postdoctoral Researcher, Queen Mary University of London, School of Geography, and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, autor de correspondencia), Dorothy Kaufmann (0000-0002-4185-4550, Assistant Professor, ETH Zürich, Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development, Switzerland)
Año2022
Volumen59
Número4
Páginas1129-1159
Fecha de publicación2022-05-25
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaUrban Affairs Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/10780874221091594
OpenAlexW4281565684
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas28
Referencias citadas46

Cities worldwide operate on the frontlines to support forced migrants. Some of these cities even overstep their formal prerogatives by refusing to comply with, and at times overtly subverting, the prescriptions of national authorities. This article builds a conceptual framework to understand such forms of insurgent urban asylum policy-making. We argue that insurgency depends on how city governments mediate the constraints and opportunities that emanate from the horizontal and vertical dimensions of multi-level governance, which capture city-level political dynamics as well as intergovernmental interactions. To illustrate our framework, we compare asylum policy-making in Barcelona, Milan, and Munich during the 2010s “refugee crisis.” While Munich invested in rather uncontroversial integration programs, Milan and Barcelona overstepped their jurisdictional boundaries and supported migrants considered “illegal” by national governments. These insurgent responses were enacted as a “remedy from below,” stemming from a sense of urgency that was not as pressing for Munich’s policy-makers because of the greater capacity of Germany’s asylum system

Business · Corporate governance · Multi-level governance · Perspective (graphical · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Urban planning · Urban policy · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Public Administration