Insurgent Asylum Policies in European Cities

A Multi-Level Governance Perspective

Dados 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 correspondente), Dorothy Kaufmann (0000-0002-4185-4550, Assistant Professor, ETH Zürich, Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development, Switzerland)
Ano2022
Volume59
Fascículo4
Páginas1129-1159
Data de publicação2022-05-25
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoUrban Affairs Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/10780874221091594
OpenAlexW4281565684
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas28
Referências 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