M Schiller
Biographic Data
| ID | 45466 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Schiller |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Schiller |
| SIGNATURE | SCHILLER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4453-1642 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 132 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Between inclusion and restriction: How paternalism shapes policy discretion on women-only swimming in The Hague, the Netherlands
This article examines the experiences of local street-level bureaucrats as they navigate the politicisation of immigrant-related policies while addressing the practical needs of residents. We focus on group-specific sports and more specifically women-only swimming (sometimes referred to as ‘gender-segregated swimming’). Based on nine-months of fieldwork – including conversations with street-level bureaucrats at various levels within the municipal…
Why do small Western European localities promote local integration policies? A qualitative comparative analysis
While European small and medium-sized towns (SMsTs) received growing numbers of humanitarian migrants since 2014, little is still known about the (long-term) integration policies they develop and the factors driving their emergence. Most existing works on local migration policy (including those on bigger cities) are based on few case studies, often cover ‘extreme cases’, and mostly focus on asylum-seekers’ reception rather than integration. Exist…
Whole of community or battleground? Exploring actor relationships and migrant integration in small and medium-sized towns
Between active citizenship and exploitation: Understanding exhaustion and disposability in un(der)paid and low-paid labor by refugees in the Netherlands
Dutch refugee integration and labor policies promote un(der)paid and low-paid labor by refugees a key pathway for participation. This article draws on an extensive number of interviews with public, non-public and private actors as well as refugees to examine refugees’ experiences with such forms of labor. We find that refugees are often pushed by frontline workers into protracted forms of un(der)paid labor and short-term, low-paid roles that disr…
The Politics and Governance of Migration
This Special Issue Introduction aims to unpack current dynamics of migration politics and governance research and to put forward a holistic and integrative theoretical approach, that accounts for the bi‐directionality and reciprocal influence between “the political” and “the governance” in both policymaking and policy practice on migration‐related issues. We show how the articles in this Special Issue contribute to bridge two analytical tendencie…
Forging urban diversity regimes: A combined approach to immigrant policymaking and governance in Mannheim
As migration continues to shape urban societies, how cities deal with migration‐based heterogeneity has become a salient issue. Much literature addressing immigrant policymaking has focused on current policy ideas and the different actors they involve; literature on urban governance has highlighted the role of collaboration between state and civil society actors. To date, however, limited research has taken a combined approach to see how municipa…
Should I stay or should I go? Navigating contradictory temporal logics in the Dutch asylum system
Network of Categories: A Method to Aggregate Egocentric Network Survey Data into a Whole Network Structure
We propose a new method for analyzing and visualizing information on a large collection of personal networks to uncover the socio-centric structure of relationships among aggregated actors that we clustered into categories. The network of categories identifies the links between groups of sampled ego actors sharing a given attribute (e.g., "being immigrant organizations") and abstract attribute-based groups or types of alters (e.g., "any immigrant…
Why the governance of superdiversity so often derails. A complexity perspective
Are small towns a battleground for migration governance? Negotiating refugee integration in small towns in the Netherlands
A surge in refugee arrivals post-2015 challenged small localities across Europe to respond to 'refugee integration' locally. Existing literature focuses little on governance dynamics in small localities, particularly regarding actors' roles and relations. Based on fieldwork in four Dutch localities, we analyse the involvement of different actor types and explore if/how they develop collaborative relations. We show that small town governments enga…
Towards a differentiated notion of the mainstream: Superdiversity and residents’ conceptions of immigrant integration
Recent critiques of integration and superdiversity scholarship pointed out a need to pay more attention to the positioning of established residents, also referred to as 'the mainstream', and to develop novel understandings of urban residents’ reactions to and contestations of the presence of newcomers. Drawing on ethnographic insights from 2015 in a large German city, this article identifies a spectrum of reactions to the installation of a large …
Local Immigrant Councils as a Form of Participation and Governance: How Institutional Design and Agency Matter
Over the past decades, Western European municipalities increasingly reacted to the presence of immigrants with efforts to include these new residents in local policymaking. As part of this, many cities installed local immigrant councils, allowing newcomers to participate in the political sphere and to bring their needs and interests into the political process. Even though immigrant councils became strongly institutionalized in countries like Germ…
Reclaiming the city from an urban vitalism perspective: Critically reflecting smart, inclusive, resilient and sustainable just city labels
This article analyses four of the most prominent city discourses and introduces the lens of urban vitalism as an overarching interdisciplinary concept of cities as places of transformation and change. We demonstrate the value of using urban vitalism as a lens to conceptualize and critically discuss different notions on smart, inclusive, resilient and sustainable just cities. Urban vitalism offers a process-based lens which enables us to understan…
Brokerage in urban networks on diversity and inclusion: The case of Rotterdam
Urban governance research posits a trend towards more cooperation between state and non-state actors. We also know that civil society organizations working on common issues often reinforce each other to secure a stronger voice. However, little research so far brings together urban governance and civil society coordination. This is particularly interesting for the action and policy field of diversity and inclusion, given its constant flux, multi-d…
The entanglement of substantive and symbolic politics in immigrant integration: Insights from a regional state in Germany
When discussing the governance of immigrant integration, researchers and policymakers have gone back and forth in either conceiving national governments as determining immigrant integration or ascribing the local level as a strong influence in this field of policy-making. This article focuses on the regional level instead, which has so far often been left out of the picture. Based on extensive fieldwork in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Integ…
Urban planners as boundary spanners: Steering perceptions of asylum seeker accommodations in Germany
Since its open-door policy for welcoming asylum seekers in 2015, Germany has experienced a resurgence of anti-immigrant sentiments and a backlash against the safeguarding of human rights. Such perceptions of asylum seekers and their accommodation are shaped in urban neighborhoods, where street-level bureaucrats try steering such perceptions. While much literature has discussed how immigrant affairs departments promote intercultural encounter or a…
Vielfalt and diversité: How local actors in France and Germany evaluate immigration and socio-cultural heterogeneity
In both Germany and France, perceptions of immigration, diversity and their societal consequences have undergone important transformations in the past two decades. However, existing research has only partially captured such processes. The “grand narratives” of national approaches, while still influential, no longer explain contemporary realities. Further, analyses of national politics and discourses may not sufficiently reflect the realities acro…
Economy or Justice? How Urban Actors Respond to Diversity
The diversification of population, demands for recognition, and the spread of diversity policies present new challenges to European cities. Do urban actors respond to this development in different ways across cities? Can we distinguish a logic determined by economic considerations or rather a justice-oriented logic? This article presents evidence from 20 German cities based on an original survey of important urban actors. This design reflects cur…
A relational approach to local immigrant policy-making: Collaboration with immigrant advocacy bodies in French and German cities
textabstractThe role of immigrant advocacy bodies in collaborative policy-making in cities is \nso far insufficiently researched. This article investigates the ties between relevant \nurban actors and immig
The ‘Research Traineeship’: The Ups and Downs of Para-siting Ethnography
Continuity and change in local immigrant policies in times of austerity
European cities are increasingly being recognised for the role they play in devising and implementing their own migration, integration and diversity policies. Yet very little is known about the local dimension of immigrant policymaking in crisis contexts. This introductory piece offers a rationale for analysing city-level immigrant policies in times of crisis and the salience of using crisis as a metaphor for the state of things, and outlines key…
Why do some cities adopt more diversity policies than others? A study in France and Germany
The implementation trap: The local level and diversity policies
There is widespread agreement that the local level has become more self-confident and self-reliant in formulating its own immigrant policies and sometimes developing distinct philosophies of immigrant incorporation. However, to date we know little about the actual capacities of cities to implement these philosophies consistently. This article offers a level-specific study of the governance of immigrant incorporation by European municipalities. It…
Producing Cultural Diversity: Hegemonic Knowledge in Global Governance Projects
Diversity has in recent years become a buzzword for replacing multicultural or assimilation policies, and international organisations play an important role in promoting the distribution of the con
Kultur, Gesellschaft, Migration: Die reflexive Wende in der Migrationsforschung by Nieswand, Boris and Heike Drotbohm
Paradigmatic pragmatism and the politics of diversity
How migration and mobilizations of difference are accommodated at the local level is a burning question. Concepts adopted by local governments and the capacities of cities to formulate and implement these have received increasing attention, but often without examining the ideas and norms that underlie local concepts and practices. This article assesses the hypothesis of local-level pragmatism, which it rejects, and develops the notion of 'paradig…
Why do some cities adopt more diversity policies than others? A study in France and Germany
A relational approach to local immigrant policy-making: Collaboration with immigrant advocacy bodies in French and German cities
textabstractThe role of immigrant advocacy bodies in collaborative policy-making in cities is \nso far insufficiently researched. This article investigates the ties between relevant \nurban actors and immig
Are small towns a battleground for migration governance? Negotiating refugee integration in small towns in the Netherlands
A surge in refugee arrivals post-2015 challenged small localities across Europe to respond to 'refugee integration' locally. Existing literature focuses little on governance dynamics in small localities, particularly regarding actors' roles and relations. Based on fieldwork in four Dutch localities, we analyse the involvement of different actor types and explore if/how they develop collaborative relations. We show that small town governments enga…
The implementation trap: The local level and diversity policies
There is widespread agreement that the local level has become more self-confident and self-reliant in formulating its own immigrant policies and sometimes developing distinct philosophies of immigrant incorporation. However, to date we know little about the actual capacities of cities to implement these philosophies consistently. This article offers a level-specific study of the governance of immigrant incorporation by European municipalities. It…
Economy or Justice? How Urban Actors Respond to Diversity
The diversification of population, demands for recognition, and the spread of diversity policies present new challenges to European cities. Do urban actors respond to this development in different ways across cities? Can we distinguish a logic determined by economic considerations or rather a justice-oriented logic? This article presents evidence from 20 German cities based on an original survey of important urban actors. This design reflects cur…
Brokerage in urban networks on diversity and inclusion: The case of Rotterdam
Urban governance research posits a trend towards more cooperation between state and non-state actors. We also know that civil society organizations working on common issues often reinforce each other to secure a stronger voice. However, little research so far brings together urban governance and civil society coordination. This is particularly interesting for the action and policy field of diversity and inclusion, given its constant flux, multi-d…
Forging urban diversity regimes: A combined approach to immigrant policymaking and governance in Mannheim
As migration continues to shape urban societies, how cities deal with migration‐based heterogeneity has become a salient issue. Much literature addressing immigrant policymaking has focused on current policy ideas and the different actors they involve; literature on urban governance has highlighted the role of collaboration between state and civil society actors. To date, however, limited research has taken a combined approach to see how municipa…
Vielfalt and diversité: How local actors in France and Germany evaluate immigration and socio-cultural heterogeneity
In both Germany and France, perceptions of immigration, diversity and their societal consequences have undergone important transformations in the past two decades. However, existing research has only partially captured such processes. The “grand narratives” of national approaches, while still influential, no longer explain contemporary realities. Further, analyses of national politics and discourses may not sufficiently reflect the realities acro…
The entanglement of substantive and symbolic politics in immigrant integration: Insights from a regional state in Germany
When discussing the governance of immigrant integration, researchers and policymakers have gone back and forth in either conceiving national governments as determining immigrant integration or ascribing the local level as a strong influence in this field of policy-making. This article focuses on the regional level instead, which has so far often been left out of the picture. Based on extensive fieldwork in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Integ…
Continuity and change in local immigrant policies in times of austerity
European cities are increasingly being recognised for the role they play in devising and implementing their own migration, integration and diversity policies. Yet very little is known about the local dimension of immigrant policymaking in crisis contexts. This introductory piece offers a rationale for analysing city-level immigrant policies in times of crisis and the salience of using crisis as a metaphor for the state of things, and outlines key…
Should I stay or should I go? Navigating contradictory temporal logics in the Dutch asylum system
Reclaiming the city from an urban vitalism perspective: Critically reflecting smart, inclusive, resilient and sustainable just city labels
This article analyses four of the most prominent city discourses and introduces the lens of urban vitalism as an overarching interdisciplinary concept of cities as places of transformation and change. We demonstrate the value of using urban vitalism as a lens to conceptualize and critically discuss different notions on smart, inclusive, resilient and sustainable just cities. Urban vitalism offers a process-based lens which enables us to understan…
Between active citizenship and exploitation: Understanding exhaustion and disposability in un(der)paid and low-paid labor by refugees in the Netherlands
Dutch refugee integration and labor policies promote un(der)paid and low-paid labor by refugees a key pathway for participation. This article draws on an extensive number of interviews with public, non-public and private actors as well as refugees to examine refugees’ experiences with such forms of labor. We find that refugees are often pushed by frontline workers into protracted forms of un(der)paid labor and short-term, low-paid roles that disr…
Why the governance of superdiversity so often derails. A complexity perspective
Kultur, Gesellschaft, Migration: Die reflexive Wende in der Migrationsforschung by Nieswand, Boris and Heike Drotbohm
Paradigmatic pragmatism and the politics of diversity
How migration and mobilizations of difference are accommodated at the local level is a burning question. Concepts adopted by local governments and the capacities of cities to formulate and implement these have received increasing attention, but often without examining the ideas and norms that underlie local concepts and practices. This article assesses the hypothesis of local-level pragmatism, which it rejects, and develops the notion of 'paradig…
The implementation trap: The local level and diversity policies
There is widespread agreement that the local level has become more self-confident and self-reliant in formulating its own immigrant policies and sometimes developing distinct philosophies of immigrant incorporation. However, to date we know little about the actual capacities of cities to implement these philosophies consistently. This article offers a level-specific study of the governance of immigrant incorporation by European municipalities. It…
Producing Cultural Diversity: Hegemonic Knowledge in Global Governance Projects
Diversity has in recent years become a buzzword for replacing multicultural or assimilation policies, and international organisations play an important role in promoting the distribution of the con
The ‘Research Traineeship’: The Ups and Downs of Para-siting Ethnography
Continuity and change in local immigrant policies in times of austerity
European cities are increasingly being recognised for the role they play in devising and implementing their own migration, integration and diversity policies. Yet very little is known about the local dimension of immigrant policymaking in crisis contexts. This introductory piece offers a rationale for analysing city-level immigrant policies in times of crisis and the salience of using crisis as a metaphor for the state of things, and outlines key…
Why do some cities adopt more diversity policies than others? A study in France and Germany
Vielfalt and diversité: How local actors in France and Germany evaluate immigration and socio-cultural heterogeneity
In both Germany and France, perceptions of immigration, diversity and their societal consequences have undergone important transformations in the past two decades. However, existing research has only partially captured such processes. The “grand narratives” of national approaches, while still influential, no longer explain contemporary realities. Further, analyses of national politics and discourses may not sufficiently reflect the realities acro…
Economy or Justice? How Urban Actors Respond to Diversity
The diversification of population, demands for recognition, and the spread of diversity policies present new challenges to European cities. Do urban actors respond to this development in different ways across cities? Can we distinguish a logic determined by economic considerations or rather a justice-oriented logic? This article presents evidence from 20 German cities based on an original survey of important urban actors. This design reflects cur…
A relational approach to local immigrant policy-making: Collaboration with immigrant advocacy bodies in French and German cities
textabstractThe role of immigrant advocacy bodies in collaborative policy-making in cities is \nso far insufficiently researched. This article investigates the ties between relevant \nurban actors and immig
Urban planners as boundary spanners: Steering perceptions of asylum seeker accommodations in Germany
Since its open-door policy for welcoming asylum seekers in 2015, Germany has experienced a resurgence of anti-immigrant sentiments and a backlash against the safeguarding of human rights. Such perceptions of asylum seekers and their accommodation are shaped in urban neighborhoods, where street-level bureaucrats try steering such perceptions. While much literature has discussed how immigrant affairs departments promote intercultural encounter or a…
Towards a differentiated notion of the mainstream: Superdiversity and residents’ conceptions of immigrant integration
Recent critiques of integration and superdiversity scholarship pointed out a need to pay more attention to the positioning of established residents, also referred to as 'the mainstream', and to develop novel understandings of urban residents’ reactions to and contestations of the presence of newcomers. Drawing on ethnographic insights from 2015 in a large German city, this article identifies a spectrum of reactions to the installation of a large …
Local Immigrant Councils as a Form of Participation and Governance: How Institutional Design and Agency Matter
Over the past decades, Western European municipalities increasingly reacted to the presence of immigrants with efforts to include these new residents in local policymaking. As part of this, many cities installed local immigrant councils, allowing newcomers to participate in the political sphere and to bring their needs and interests into the political process. Even though immigrant councils became strongly institutionalized in countries like Germ…
Reclaiming the city from an urban vitalism perspective: Critically reflecting smart, inclusive, resilient and sustainable just city labels
This article analyses four of the most prominent city discourses and introduces the lens of urban vitalism as an overarching interdisciplinary concept of cities as places of transformation and change. We demonstrate the value of using urban vitalism as a lens to conceptualize and critically discuss different notions on smart, inclusive, resilient and sustainable just cities. Urban vitalism offers a process-based lens which enables us to understan…
Brokerage in urban networks on diversity and inclusion: The case of Rotterdam
Urban governance research posits a trend towards more cooperation between state and non-state actors. We also know that civil society organizations working on common issues often reinforce each other to secure a stronger voice. However, little research so far brings together urban governance and civil society coordination. This is particularly interesting for the action and policy field of diversity and inclusion, given its constant flux, multi-d…
The entanglement of substantive and symbolic politics in immigrant integration: Insights from a regional state in Germany
When discussing the governance of immigrant integration, researchers and policymakers have gone back and forth in either conceiving national governments as determining immigrant integration or ascribing the local level as a strong influence in this field of policy-making. This article focuses on the regional level instead, which has so far often been left out of the picture. Based on extensive fieldwork in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Integ…
Are small towns a battleground for migration governance? Negotiating refugee integration in small towns in the Netherlands
A surge in refugee arrivals post-2015 challenged small localities across Europe to respond to 'refugee integration' locally. Existing literature focuses little on governance dynamics in small localities, particularly regarding actors' roles and relations. Based on fieldwork in four Dutch localities, we analyse the involvement of different actor types and explore if/how they develop collaborative relations. We show that small town governments enga…
The Politics and Governance of Migration
This Special Issue Introduction aims to unpack current dynamics of migration politics and governance research and to put forward a holistic and integrative theoretical approach, that accounts for the bi‐directionality and reciprocal influence between “the political” and “the governance” in both policymaking and policy practice on migration‐related issues. We show how the articles in this Special Issue contribute to bridge two analytical tendencie…
Forging urban diversity regimes: A combined approach to immigrant policymaking and governance in Mannheim
As migration continues to shape urban societies, how cities deal with migration‐based heterogeneity has become a salient issue. Much literature addressing immigrant policymaking has focused on current policy ideas and the different actors they involve; literature on urban governance has highlighted the role of collaboration between state and civil society actors. To date, however, limited research has taken a combined approach to see how municipa…
Should I stay or should I go? Navigating contradictory temporal logics in the Dutch asylum system
Network of Categories: A Method to Aggregate Egocentric Network Survey Data into a Whole Network Structure
We propose a new method for analyzing and visualizing information on a large collection of personal networks to uncover the socio-centric structure of relationships among aggregated actors that we clustered into categories. The network of categories identifies the links between groups of sampled ego actors sharing a given attribute (e.g., "being immigrant organizations") and abstract attribute-based groups or types of alters (e.g., "any immigrant…
Why the governance of superdiversity so often derails. A complexity perspective
Between inclusion and restriction: How paternalism shapes policy discretion on women-only swimming in The Hague, the Netherlands
This article examines the experiences of local street-level bureaucrats as they navigate the politicisation of immigrant-related policies while addressing the practical needs of residents. We focus on group-specific sports and more specifically women-only swimming (sometimes referred to as ‘gender-segregated swimming’). Based on nine-months of fieldwork – including conversations with street-level bureaucrats at various levels within the municipal…
Why do small Western European localities promote local integration policies? A qualitative comparative analysis
While European small and medium-sized towns (SMsTs) received growing numbers of humanitarian migrants since 2014, little is still known about the (long-term) integration policies they develop and the factors driving their emergence. Most existing works on local migration policy (including those on bigger cities) are based on few case studies, often cover ‘extreme cases’, and mostly focus on asylum-seekers’ reception rather than integration. Exist…
Whole of community or battleground? Exploring actor relationships and migrant integration in small and medium-sized towns
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Immigration (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Diversity (politics (9 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (9 works)