Coping with Migrants and Refugees

This book provides a comparative overview of asylum seekers' reception throughout Europe by adopting a theoretical framework based on an analytical approach to the notion of multilevel governance.

Autorentext

Tiziana Caponio is Associate Professor at the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society of the University of Turin and Fellow at Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy.

Irene Ponzo is Deputy Director of the International and European Forum for Immigration Research (FIERI), Italy.

Klappentext

This book provides a comparative overview of asylum seekers' reception throughout Europe by adopting a theoretical framework based on an analytical approach to the notion of multilevel governance.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: An analytical approach to the multilevel governance of asylum seekers reception policies 2. Making sense of EU reception policies in the midst of the crisis: The Partnership for the Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees as a case of multilevel governance policy-making 3. Reforms of asylum seekers reception during the 2010s: Driving factors and multilevel governance arrangements 4. Multilevel policy-making of refugee reception policies in Spain 5. The variance in multilevel governance of asylum seekers reception in Italy: The key roles of policy legacy, politics and civil society 6. The multilevel governance of asylum seekers reception in Germany and the role of the local level: A local tölocal comparison 7. The gradual emergence of a Greek reception system amidst multiple "crises" 8. The Finnish reception system and a local perspective on integration 9. Multilevel governance of the "refugee crisis" in Germany: A chronological analysis of governance approaches and implementation outcomes 10. Conclusion: Multilevel governance between centralisation and local agency