Abstract
In this contribution, we investigate how the role of cities in the governance of refugee integration has changed as a consequence of the Europeanization of asylum policies into a Common European Asylum System (CEAS) in conjunction with the “refugee crisis” of 2015, which this CEAS turned out to be unable to adequately cope with. We will answer this question by first giving a quick overview of scholarly thinking on the role of the city in global issues in general, and in migration issues in particular. After this we provide an exploratory analysis of the role cities presently see for themselves as cities, as well as jointly organized in European networks.
Highlights
There is an important stream of literature arguing for a more local approach to global issues in general and, though less so, migration issues in particular
City networks voice complaints about the Dublin III regulation, which stipulates as a core principle of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) that the European country an asylum seeker first sets foot on, is and remains responsible for all that follows, be it integration, temporary protection, or rejection and deportation
We have shown that city governments “feel” they are underestimated and even neglected as agents in national and European policymaking with regards to migration, both in general terms as well as for refugee integration
Summary
There is an important stream of literature arguing for a more local approach to global issues in general and, though less so, migration issues in particular. We can observe how cities contest policies or seek and exercise discretion when national policies turn out to be unenforceable, politically undesirable or at cross-purposes with their specific mandate (e.g., maintaining public order; see, for the Dutch case, Kos, Maussen, & Doomernik, 2016; for the US, Canada and the UK see Bauder, 2017). Cities steering their own course is not new or unique for Europe. We evaluate in which domains these present policy ambitions depart from those that traditionally belong to the realm of urban governance, and those that represent a European “local turn” in response to the “refugee crisis”
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