This Special Issue speaks to the emergent literature on the role of local governments in the
context of broader multi-level governance (MLG) networks (Bache and Flinders, 2004; …

Full article: Theorising migration policy in multilevel states: the multilevel governance
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The reception of asylum seekers in Italy has become an increasingly contentious issue:
many actors, public and private, are involved at various levels of government, and …

Cities claim an ever-larger role in migration governance, often by means of progressive
policies that “decouple” the local from the national. The literature on this “local turn” has …

This article explores the responses of European local authorities to the public service needs
of residents with irregular immigration status and the tensions with national governments to …

Scholarship has sought to develop theoretical frameworks to set order on the rather
muddled web of actors, interactions and tensions involved in asylum and immigration …

Governance has become an increasingly plurivalent concept in the study of political
responses to immigrant integration. While there is a growing literature on the governance of …

ways migration and diversity have transformed cities, and how cities have responded to the
challenges and opportunities offered. strengthening the relevance of the city as a crucial …

This paper examines municipal responses to restrictive national policies by focussing on
welfare provision for non-removed rejected asylum seekers. Using an analytical framework …

Civil society and municipal actors–and the interaction between one another–have become
increasingly relevant in EU migration governance. Moving from this understanding, this …