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Local Integration of Migrants Policy

European Experiences and Challenges

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Presents an overview of European migration policy
  • Explores various institutional arrangements within and between different actors
  • Provides a range of detailed case studies focusing on the six main groups of national and administrative traditions in Europe

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Sub-National Governance (PSSNG)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
  2. New Challenges in Local Migrant Integration Policy in Europe

    • Jochen Franzke, José M. Ruano de la Fuente
    Pages 1-9
  3. The Norwegian Case: Integration Through Local Autonomy and Institutionalization

    • Susanne Søholt, Kristian Rose Tronstad
    Pages 35-52
  4. Migration in the Netherlands: Threats and Opportunities

    • Laurens Jonathan Zwaan
    Pages 87-105
  5. Reception of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in France: Between Rigour and Humanism

    • Christophe Bonnotte, Michel Sénimon
    Pages 141-167
  6. Immigration and Integration Policies in Poland: Institutional, Political and Social Perspectives

    • Małgorzata Molęda-Zdziech, Marta Pachocka, Dominik Wach
    Pages 169-199
  7. Local Integration Policy of Migrants in Croatia: In Search of Coherence and Capacity

    • Ivan Koprić, Goranka Lalić Novak, Teo Giljević
    Pages 215-230
  8. Challenges of Immigrant Integration in Spanish Local Governments

    • José M. Ruano de la Fuente
    Pages 245-260
  9. Internal Geopolitics and Migration Policies in Italy

    • Giuseppe Bettoni, Isabella Tamponi
    Pages 261-283
  10. Conclusions: An Overview of Local Migrant Integration Policies in Europe

    • Jochen Franzke, José M. Ruano de la Fuente
    Pages 335-344
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 345-350

About this book

This book presents an overview of European migration policy and the various institutional arrangements within and between various actors, such as local councils, local media, local economies, and local civil society initiatives. Both the role of local authorities in this policy field and their cooperation with civil society initiatives or networks are under-explored topics for research. In response, this book provides a range of detailed case studies focusing on the six main groups of national and administrative traditions in Europe: Germanic, Scandinavian, Napoleonic, Southeastern European, Central-Eastern European and Anglo-Saxon.

Reviews

“A must-read for decision makers, scholars and stakeholders who are interested in how innovating migration policies go beyond the national level and focus on the local dimension for effective integration. Evidence from an array of European Union experiences explained in readable prose by the best specialists will open your eyes to the possibilities hosted by the local level for successful migrant-centred policies.” (—Aída Díaz-Tendero, Researcher, National Autonomous University of Mexico)

“This is the book that the whole of Europe—if not the whole World— has been waiting for! It is well composed and thought provoking, and the aspects of migration, integration policy and local governance are fluently discussed. The representative selection of country cases illuminates interesting View points and history, and examines problems and solutions in different contexts. Migration concerns municipalities—it concerns us all.” (—Hanna Vakkala, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lapland, Finland)

“A unique volume providing deep insights into practices of migration integration and local governance in the context of migration processes in European countries. Given the significance of migration issue for modern societies (especially from the governance perspective) within current global political economic and socio-cultural environment the provided comparative analysis of European practices and experience of handling the migration on local level turns out to be exceptionally relevant and extremely important.” (—Andrey A. Kinyakin, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), and Head of Science & Education, Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM).)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Economics & Social Sciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Jochen Franzke

  • Department of Political and Administrative Sciences, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

    José M. Ruano de la Fuente

About the editors

Jochen Franzke is a Professor of Administrative Science at the Faculty of Economics and Social Science, University of Potsdam, Germany. His main research fields are comparative sub-national public administrative reforms and new forms of local governance and citizen participation. He is a member of the Board of the Institute of Local Government Studies (University of Potsdam) and Co-chair of the Permanent Study Group on Local Governance and Democracy at the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA). He has been a visiting scholar at several European universities. 

José M. Ruano de la Fuente is a Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain, and has been a visiting scholar at several European and American universities. His main research fields are comparative public administration and local governance. Currently, he is Vice-President of the European association Entretiens Universitaires Réguliers pour l’Administration en Europe (EUROPA), President of its Scientific Committee, and Co-chair of the Permanent Study Group on Local Governance and Democracy at the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA). He is Co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Decentralisation in Europe.      



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Local Integration of Migrants Policy

  • Book Subtitle: European Experiences and Challenges

  • Editors: Jochen Franzke, José M. Ruano de la Fuente

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Sub-National Governance

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50979-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50978-1Published: 28 November 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50981-1Published: 28 November 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50979-8Published: 27 November 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2523-8248

  • Series E-ISSN: 2523-8256

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 350

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Governance and Government, Public Policy

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Softcover Book USD 139.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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