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 …

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 …

This article aims at discussing the involvement of “humanitarian” actors, stemming from civil
society, in treatment of the issue of refugees' reception. It suggests the concept of “de …

Local “Battlegrounds”. Relocating Multi-Level and Multi-Actor Governance of Immigration |
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The article argues that the governance of immigration, especially at local level, can be
considered a “battleground” involving diverse actors. Beyond the idea of a “negotiated …

The chapter examines the public discourse and the administrative acts carried out by local
institutions in front of the arrival of asylum seekers in their territories, with a specific attention …

Studies on the framing of the refugee crisis have focused on media and political discourses,
revealing contrasting views and an increasing politicization of immigration. However, the …

The chapter analyses how local policies of exclusion have been redirected in recent years
towards a particular category of immigrants: namely asylum seekers, representing them as …

Resettlement of refugees in third countries has seen a growing intervention by various civil
society actors in the last few years, starting from the Canadian experience. Also in Europe …

In spite of various legislative efforts to ban discrimination, 1 xenophobic statements are
structurally present in the European public sphere, and incidents of racially motivated …