Immigrant integration and local actors: more than friends out of necessity

Abstract

The ‘local turn’ in immigrant integration has become a widely accepted phenomenon over the last 15 years. Cities, but increasingly also regions and Bundesländer, have taken over an active role in the governance of immigrant integration, not seldom challenging national approaches. Nevertheless, the drivers of the increased engagement of local actors in immigrant integration governance remain unexplored. This panel brings together papers shedding new light on the local engagement in immigrant integration by evaluating the role of various local actors in accommodating refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented persons, but also by questioning the role of the local level for mobile EU citizens and the challenges for them stemming from Brexit.

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Towards a typology of solidarity cities across Europe in the omnipresent of so-called refugee crisis since 2015	View Paper Details
The forgotten migrants: did English local governments neglect support for EU nationals facing Brexit?	View Paper Details
Meanings and Understandings of security among (local) police officers in relation to refugees	View Paper Details
Do Regions matter? The local supply of language courses and refugees' labor market integration	View Paper Details