1st Edition

Coping with Migrants and Refugees Multilevel Governance across the EU

Edited By Tiziana Caponio, Irene Ponzo Copyright 2022
250 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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 (MLG). It challenges the tendency of the MLG literature to overlook political controversies and conflicts and questions the assumption that it represents the best policymaking arrangement... Read more

1. Introduction: An analytical approach to the multilevel governance of asylum seekers’ reception policies

Tiziana Caponio

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

Tiziana Caponio

3. Reforms of asylum seekers’ reception during the 2010s: Driving factors and multilevel governance arrangements

Irene Ponzo

4. Multilevel policy-making of refugee reception policies in Spain

Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas and Gracia Moreno-Amador

5. The variance in multilevel governance of asylum seekers’ reception in Italy: The key roles of policy legacy, politics and civil society

Irene Ponzo, Leila Giannetto and Emanuela Roman

6. The multilevel governance of asylum seekers’ reception in Germany and the role of the local level: A local‐to‐local comparison

Birgit Glorius and Simone Gasch

7. The gradual emergence of a Greek reception system amidst multiple "crises"

Angeliki Dimitriadi

8. The Finnish reception system and a local perspective on integration

Östen Wahlbeck

9. Multilevel governance of the "refugee crisis" in Germany: a chronological analysis of governance approaches and implementation outcomes

Birgit Glorius

10. Conclusion: Multilevel governance between centralisation and local agency

Tiziana Caponio and Irene Ponzo

Biography

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.