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"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.
It challenges the tendency of the multilevel governance literature to overlook political controversies and conflicts and questions the assumption that it represents the best policymaking arrangement for promoting policy convergence. In doing so, it explores the functioning of the reception component of the Common European Asylum System in centralised states and federal/regional states and analyses its implementation at both national and local levels. The book reveals the heterogeneous development of reception policies not only across Member States but also within each country where solutions adopted at the local level generally diverge substantially. Furthermore, the overall centralization of policymaking on reception regardless the institutional structure, seems to leave little room for MLG arrangements tailored to specific localities and triggers tensions between central governments and local authorities.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of migration and asylum studies, immigration, (multilevel) global governance and more broadly to comparative politics, European studies/politics, and public policy."

AbstractSouthern European countries are generally portrayed as lame ducks when it comes to migrant integration. In this article, I will analyse some of the reasons that have led to this outcome including potential biases in migration studies. I argue that Southern European countries in fact hold their own specific ways of incorporating migrants which may be equally or even more positive than those of older immigration countries. At the same time, I maintain that they appear rather heterogeneous in this regard, questioning the idea of a single Southern European model. I will test these hypotheses by comparing Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece with some Western European older immigration countries and by observing the trends of migrant incorporation during the Great Recession which started in 2008. The economic crisis is here regarded as both a factor of change and a 'stress test' of the actual robustness of migrant incorporation in the target countries. The empirical data are framed in a typology of migrant incorporation modes conceived of as a heuristic tool to conceptualise the processes occurring during deep economic downturns.

Chapter 1. Introduction. Understanding Migration Controls in Europe -- Chapter 2. External Controls: Policing Entries, Enforcing Exits -- Chapter 3. Practices of External Control: Is there a North-South Divide? -- Chapter 4. A "European" Externalisation Strategy? A Transnational Perspective on Aid, Border Regimes, and the EU Trust Fund for Africa in Morocco -- Chapter 5. The Genealogy of the External Dimension of the Spanish Immigration Regime: When a Bricolage National Policy Becomes a Driver of Europeanisation -- Chapter 6. Challenges and Ambiguities of the Policies for Immigrants' Regularisation: The Portuguese Case in Context -- Chapter 7. Knowledge Production through Regularisation and Ex-Post Regulation Strategies: Italy and Germany Compared -- Chapter 8. Differently Similar. The Quest for Migration Control in The Netherlands and Spain -- Chapter 9. "Selecting by Origin" Revisited: On the Particularistic Turn of German Labour Migration Policy -- Chapter 10. The Admission of Foreign Workers to Italy: Closing the "Gap" with Northern Europe -- Chapter 11. Seasonal Workers in Agriculture: The Cases of Spain and The Netherlands in Times of Covid-19 -- Chapter 12. Migration Policy and Welfare Chauvinism in the United Kingdom: European Divergence or Trend-Setting? -- Chapter 13. Turning the Welfare-Migration Nexus Upside-Down: The Case of European Retirees in Spain -- Chapter 14. Welcome Culture and Bureaucratic Ambiguity: Germany's Complex Asylum Regime -- Chapter 15. Looking into Policy Change: How the Italian Asylum Regime Came of Age -- Chapter 16. The Greek Asylum Regime: From Latecomer on Reception to Inspirational Model on Asylum Procedures -- Chapter 17. Concluding Remarks: Towards a New Conceptualisation of Similarities and Differences in European Migration Controls.

Building upon the concept of migration regime, this open access book brings together the works of scholars who have investigated logics and routines of action in the field of immigration control within a single and innovative theoretical framework. The chapters cover a wide range of policy domains, from visa policy to the externalisation of controls, labour migration to asylum, internal controls towards irregular migration to restrictions for intra-EU mobility. By unravelling organisational strategies and practices across Europe, the book does not only contribute to dismantling the very idea of the European North-South divide in migration but also shows how Europe really works in the field of migration in times of deep economic, asylum and health crises. In this perspective, the book questions the widespread understanding of migration control outcomes as simply the result of more or less effective state policies without considering the embeddedness of the national policy goals and strategies in the dynamic interplay of different economies, institutional cultures and geopolitical positions.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: An analytical approach to the multilevel governance of asylum seekers' reception policies -- Introduction -- Asylum seekers' reception policies: an open-ended definition -- The analytical framework: multilevel policy-making dynamics and policy convergence -- Methodology -- Contents of the chapters -- 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 -- Introduction -- Debates on the EU (multilevel) governance of migration. Beyond the state -- The genesis of the Partnership for the Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees -- The PIMR Action Plan. Modes of policy-making -- Assessing the PIMR from a multilevel governance perspective -- Conclusion -- 3. Reforms of asylum seekers' reception during the 2010s: Driving factors and multilevel governance arrangements -- Introduction -- Making sense of policy reforms over asylum seekers' reception -- Unitary countries -- Federalist and regionalist states -- Comparative discussion. Driving factors of reforms over reception and MLG arrangements -- 4. Multilevel policy-making of refugee reception policies in Spain -- Introduction -- Pressure increases -- The reception system -- Local implementation processes -- Outcomes -- Final considerations on multilevel governance -- 5. The variance in multilevel governance of asylum seekers' reception in Italy: The key roles of policy legacy, politics and civil society -- Introduction -- Problem pressure. Inflows of asylum seekers and refugees in the last decade -- The reception system. Decisional processes and implementation.

"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. It challenges the tendency of the multilevel governance literature to overlook political controversies and conflicts and questions the assumption that it represents the best policymaking arrangement for promoting policy convergence. In doing so, it explores the functioning of the reception component of the Common European Asylum System in centralised states and federal/regional states and analyses its implementation at both national and local levels. The book reveals the heterogeneous development of reception policies not only across Member States but also within each country where solutions adopted at the local level generally diverge substantially. Furthermore, the overall centralization of policymaking on reception regardless the institutional structure, seems to leave little room for MLG arrangements tailored to specific localities and triggers tensions between central governments and local authorities. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of migration and asylum studies, immigration, (multilevel) global governance and more broadly to comparative politics, European studies/politics, and public policy"

"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.
It challenges the tendency of the multilevel governance literature to overlook political controversies and conflicts and questions the assumption that it represents the best policymaking arrangement for promoting policy convergence. In doing so, it explores the functioning of the reception component of the Common European Asylum System in centralised states and federal/regional states and analyses its implementation at both national and local levels. The book reveals the heterogeneous development of reception policies not only across Member States but also within each country where solutions adopted at the local level generally diverge substantially. Furthermore, the overall centralization of policymaking on reception regardless the institutional structure, seems to leave little room for MLG arrangements tailored to specific localities and triggers tensions between central governments and local authorities.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of migration and asylum studies, immigration, (multilevel) global governance and more broadly to comparative politics, European studies/politics, and public policy."

Migration; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns); Political Science

L'articolo approfondisce due crisi urbane scoppiate nel 2013: il moltiplicarsi dei migranti in transito alla Stazione Centrale di Milano e l'occupazione abusiva di quattro stabili dell'ex-Moi a Torino. Attraverso l'analisi congiunta delle dinamiche mediatiche e di policy, gli autori mostrano il ruolo centrale che le istituzioni locali possono ricoprire nella produzione delle narrazioni sui migranti, incluse quelle dei media. Tuttavia, affinché ciò avvenga, sono necessarie alcune condizioni: gli attori appartenenti ai policy network locali devono sviluppare frame condivisi e comunicarli ai media, instaurando con questi ultimi relazioni dense. D'altro canto, anche le dinamiche proprie del giornalismo locale contano: la presenza di cronisti esperti di migrazioni e stabilmente impegnati sul caso, così come la collaborazione tra giornalisti all'interno della stessa testata e tra testate differenti, l'esistenza cioè di una sorta di media community locale, contribuiscono allo sviluppo di narrazioni mediatiche coerenti nel tempo e all'affermarsi di frame umanitari invece che securitari.