Deciding Refugee Settlement in Norwegian Cities

Local Administration or Party Politics

Bibliographic Data

ID12213015
AuthorsAnton Steen (0000-0002-2030-8411, University of Oslo, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume29
Issue4
Pages464-482
Publication date2016-09-29
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Refugee Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0951-6328 • E-ISSN: 1471-6925
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/jrs/few032
OpenAlexW2524091219
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited36

Refugee settlement is regularly contested among local governments in Norway who have full autonomy to accept or reject the state’s request that they receive a certain number of refugees. Here the author studies how local administrative and political processes may account for the responses of 14 cities—seven receptive and seven restrictive—in multi-level governance settings. Are the decisions to accept or reject the state’s petition driven by the city administrations or by political parties in the city council? And how may local issue framing explain the outcomes? The data indicates that the administrative framing of refugee settlement is paramount for activating certain political patterns, and for instigating a majority in favour of the administrative motion. Generally, the majority of the parties adhere to the administration’s economic arguments; however, council debates are also prompting considerable symbolic politics in favour of receiving refugees

Administration (probate law · Business · Norwegian · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Settlement (finance · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Law · Public Administration

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