Cities and the politics of immigrant integration: a comparison of Berlin, Amsterdam, New York City, and San Francisco

Graauw, Els de; Vermeulen, Floris

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2015.1126089

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Section: Substate Immigration Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Critiquing the ability of existing accounts to explain why actors with similar values, interests or norms support immigrants at different rates, a final body of scholarship emphasizes political and institutional dynamics (Ramakrishnan and Bloemraad, 2008;de Graauw et al, 2013;de Graauw and Vermeulen, 2016). For example, de Graauw et al (2013) have examined why municipal officials in metro San Francisco fund immigrant-servicing organizations at different rates despite holding common progressive values.…”

Section: Substate Immigration Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Welcoming Refugees and the Cultural Wealth of Cities: Intersections of Urban Development and Refugee Humanitarianism

Watson¹

2019

Int J Urban Regional Res

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In a context of rising nativism, cities across liberal democracies are enacting agendas to ‘welcome’ migrants and refugees. Existing scholarship examines this contentious political geography as reflecting either accommodative or restrictive responses to local immigrant populations. Through this lens, pro‐immigrant policies and dynamics are seen to recognize and support a set of pre‐defined immigrant ‘interests’, with the pertinent question being which local actors initiate processes of incorporation and why. Drawing on urban scholarship, this article offers an alternative framework through an analysis of resettled refugees’ experiences within the ‘welcoming agenda’ of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I show that this agenda is tethered to postindustrial ideologies of urban development, which see building and promoting ‘diversity’ as an economic exigency. As such, locally resettled refugees are incentivized to participate in a ‘symbolic economy’ valuing images of diversity, cosmopolitanism and immigrant contribution. Refugees gain access to resources, recognition and decision makers through participation in this symbolic economy, a process constituting a previously unexamined form of incorporation. I advance the concept of the ‘welcomed refugee’ to organize thinking about this process and call for critical attention to the forms of incorporation fostered in pro‐immigrant, cosmopolitan, substate settings.

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Section: Substate Immigration Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Substate Immigration Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Welcoming Refugees and the Cultural Wealth of Cities: Intersections of Urban Development and Refugee Humanitarianism

Watson¹

2019

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Local governments are increasingly finding a place in international migration literature. They are seen as “the best agents” in immigrant integration, facilitators of the migration‐development nexus and transnational development cooperation (together with migrant organizations), providers of basic public services such as education, health and welfare services in some cities and collaborators of national governments in controlling migration (Alexander, ; Guiraudon and Lahav, ; Fauser, ; Graauw and Vermeulen, ; Scholten and Penninx, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Responding to Irregular Migration: High Potential of Local Governments in Turkey

Genç

2018

International Migration

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This study examines local governments' growing presence in irregular migration management, and discusses how autonomous local responses challenge centralist approaches to the management of this migration. By building on the relevant legal framework, secondary literature and interview notes, the study focuses its attention on irregular migration in Turkey, and uncovers the potential of two local government units – district municipalities and muhtarlıks – in the response to irregular migration. The study discusses the enablers and the main constraints on these local government units in responding to, and therefore involving themselves in, the management of the phenomenon. As discussed in the study, the main impediment appears to be the country's highly centralized state structure, while there also exist several enablers, such as Turkish Townsmen Law (Hemşehri Hukuku), the trust relationship with their inhabitants, and their experience of liminality in handling irregular matters and providing social aid to vulnerable, fragile and low‐income residents.

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“…However, comparative studies (e.g., De Graauw & Vermeulen, 2016;Nicholls & Uitermark, 2013;Scholten, 2013) also show how the urban context shapes migrant policies beyond 'simple' pragmatism. These authors highlight factors such as city officials' institutional capacities, the role of minority organizations, and local political developments, resulting in city-specific discursive and institutional structures.…”

Section: Understanding Urban Migrant Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Governing difference in the city: urban imaginaries and the policy practice of migrant incorporation

Hoekstra

2017

Territory, Politics, Governance

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Governance in cities: Urban imagination and integration of immigration policy. Territory, Politics, Governance. This article examines how urban policy actors organize policy practice according to their understanding of the diverse city. In contrast to the national level, cities are sometimes considered to have a pragmatic approach to governing (ethnic) diversity. Yet urban policies also reflect local norms and identities. As such, the city functions as a local discursive condition for and product of understandings of the social world, including processes of differentiation and boundary-drawing. A comparison of policies dealing with migrant incorporation in Amsterdam and The Haguetwo highly diverse cities in The Netherlandsshows a discrepancy may exist between overarching discourses and policy practices. While municipal policy discourses suggest a coherent programme, policy practices are rather fragmented. Even though policy actors explain this divergence (also) in terms of pragmatism, they use distinct, city-specific logics to identify what is 'pragmatic' and arrive at different outcomes. 'Urban imaginaries' or tacitly shared imaginations about the place of migrants in the urban community serve to provide orientation in this regard.

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Cities and the politics of immigrant integration: a comparison of Berlin, Amsterdam, New York City, and San Francisco

Cited by 141 publications

References 24 publications

Welcoming Refugees and the Cultural Wealth of Cities: Intersections of Urban Development and Refugee Humanitarianism

Welcoming Refugees and the Cultural Wealth of Cities: Intersections of Urban Development and Refugee Humanitarianism

Responding to Irregular Migration: High Potential of Local Governments in Turkey

Governing difference in the city: urban imaginaries and the policy practice of migrant incorporation

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