A Local Dimension of Integration Policies? A Comparative Study of                     Berlin, Malmö, and Rotterdam

Dekker, Rianne; Emilsson, Henrik; Krieger, Bernhard; Scholten, Peter

doi:10.1111/imre.12133

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“…Governance also connotes policy processes evolving within those structures as stakeholders mobilize to address specific issues (e.g. Dekker et al 2015;Goodwin 2015;Scholten 2016;Strünck 2005). This article focuses on the second aspect and conceptualizes the policy process as composed of one discursive and one applied, practical element (e.g.…”

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Balancing informality and need – policy responses to informal East-West migration in Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden

Zelano

2018

Policy Studies

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The article provides an analysis of policy responses to mobile EU citizens without legal residence in the Netherlands, Austria and Sweden. A comparative case study design uses qualitative survey and interview data to identify national and local policy responses to the implications of EU citizens from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) living without legal residence in the aforementioned countries. The theoretical framework specifies how the institutional logic of welfare regimes is likely to generate policy responses that address need, sanction informality or do both. The choice indicates the priority given to redistributive outcomes, administrative procedures, or both. The results reveal similar responses to those implications relating to the labour market, but slightly different approaches to the implications in the social domain. Policy responses to labour market implications have predominantly focused on sanctioning informality. Swedish and Austrian policy responses in the social domain have focused on addressing need. Dutch policy responses to social issues instead focused on sanctioning informality, prioritizing procedure. The results indicate that local and national policy responses to implications of informal intra-EU migration may be fruitfully understood through the prism of welfare regimes and related approaches to need and informality.ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Conceptualizing the Policy Processmentioning

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Balancing informality and need – policy responses to informal East-West migration in Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden

Zelano

2018

Policy Studies

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“…Research in other sites also shows the importance of local neighbourhoods for socialisation and adaptation of migrants and refugees irrespective of whether these sites are in urban or regional locations (Permezel & Duffy ; Dekker et al. ; Myrberg ; Scholten & Penninx ; Sichling & Roth ). Practical initiatives such as “Refugee Week”, “Refugee Welcome Zones” and “Welcoming Cities” are evidence of the value placed by local governments and neighbourhoods in their role as facilitators of local settlement (Myriad Consultants, ; Morris & O'Shea ).…”

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The role of local government in migrant and refugee settlement in regional and rural Australia

Boese

Phillips

2017

Aust J Social Issues

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Government responsibility for the settlement of newly arrived refugees and migrants in Australia is shared between the federal, state and local levels. While Australia's settlement policies are predominantly top-down and Commonwealth driven with some state involvement, local government has the potential to play a greater role in facilitating the settlement of newly arrived migrants and refugees. A growing body of literature in Australia and overseas highlights the role of local-level policies in supporting integration and social cohesion, which is arguably even more crucial in the context of migrant and refugee settlement in regional and rural areas. This paper draws on focus groups with 90 local stakeholders in eight local government areas in Victoria to propose a typology of local government involvement that shows the variable but potentially significant role of local government in the regional and rural settlement of recent arrivals. We argue that Australia's over 560 local governments provide crucial but underutilised governance resources for improving the settlement process. This finding has implications for settlement policies and funding, intergovernmental coordination, and the retention of migrants and refugees in regional and rural communities in Australia. K E Y W O R D Sintergovernmental coordination, local government, migrants, refugees, regional and rural, settlement

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“…In Western Europe, this transition is apparent in local and national integration policy focused on cities with large migrant populations, such as Rotterdam, Malmo, and Berlin (Dekker et al . ). Universalist approaches that avoid institutionalising majority or minority cultures, and that are ‘colour‐blind’ in emphasising socio‐cultural and economic participation of all citizens into society are now more widely adopted (Dekker et al .…”

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“…Universalist approaches that avoid institutionalising majority or minority cultures, and that are ‘colour‐blind’ in emphasising socio‐cultural and economic participation of all citizens into society are now more widely adopted (Dekker et al . ). But alongside this concern for social cohesion evident in policy and public discourse, there is also a continued lack of consensus on how, and to what extent, diversity should be managed.…”

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Cultural Policy, Governance and Urban Diversity: Resident Perspectives from Birmingham, UK

Warren

Jones

2017

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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Within a paradigm of culture-led urban competition, discourse and debate has focused on attracting the mobile creative class, diverting attention on cultural resources for lesser privileged groups, both established and new. Policy agendas behind culture and the arts at the neighbourhood level are quietly shifting however, with increasing emphasis on social cohesion and integration. This paper investigates for the first time how co-producing cultural activities can be used to stimulate more distributed and discursive strategies of decision-making at the neighbourhood-level. Bringing together debates on cultural policy, urban governance, and diversity this paper makes two key points: (i) geographical discourse on cultural and arts needs to reflect more upon gender, faith, ethnicity and race; (ii) dialogue enabled by focus groups can generate new participatory strategies for pluralising cultural governance in multi-cultural and disinvested neighbourhoods.

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A Local Dimension of Integration Policies? A Comparative Study of Berlin, Malmö, and Rotterdam

Cited by 106 publications

References 24 publications

Balancing informality and need – policy responses to informal East-West migration in Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden

Balancing informality and need – policy responses to informal East-West migration in Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden

The role of local government in migrant and refugee settlement in regional and rural Australia

Cultural Policy, Governance and Urban Diversity: Resident Perspectives from Birmingham, UK

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