Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale

Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration

Bibliographic Data

ID3948790
AuthorsIlker Ataç (0000-0001-8560-2155, Fulda University of Applied Sciences), Helge Schwiertz (0000-0001-5614-5362, Department of Social Sciences, University of Hamburg, Germany, corresponding author), Martin Bak Jørgensen (0000-0003-0104-8543, Aalborg University), Robin Vandevoordt (0000-0003-4591-5602, Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees Ghent University, Belgium, Germany), Sophie Hinger (0000-0001-9521-5132, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabrück, Germany), Susanne Spindler (Faculty of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, University of Applied Sciences Duesseldorf, Germany)
Year2024
Volume29
Issue2
Pages714-740
Publication date2024-03-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2022.2129732
OpenAlexW4313478165
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited51

In contrast to the increasingly repressive migration policies at national and supranational scales, new pro-migrant policies, networks, and practices of support have been initiated at the local scale. In numerous European municipalities, political visions and concrete experiences of inclusive approaches in the field of migration have emerged in recent years that combine questions of the right to global freedom of movement and social rights. While numerous studies have examined these “politics of scale” and scale-making at the local level in different places, this forum aims to further these debates by reflecting the entanglement of social movements and civil society organisations with the local municipalities across Europe and by bringing the analyses and experiences of diverse initiatives into discussion. We therefore examine practices, relations and institutions of local migration politics that re-negotiate and bypass national and supranational borders at local scales, but also create new borders and boundaries in these processes. With this multidisciplinary forum, we aim at advancing empirical analysis as well as theoretical debates in the wider field of migration and geopolitics. Each contribution deals with a concrete empirical case of local politics and the challenges that emerge in these contexts – focusing on European “host societies” in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, and Germany – as well as with analytical concepts that are key to understanding these cases and to linking them to broader societal structures and dynamics

Civil society · Economic geography · Geography · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Public Administration

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