1st Edition

Intergovernmental Relations on Immigrant Integration in Multi-Level States

Edited By Ilke Adam, Eve Hepburn Copyright 2021
120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores how governments in multi-level states coordinate immigrant integration policies. It sheds light on how the decentralization of immigrant integration to substate regions can lead to conflict or cooperation, and how a variety of factors may shape different approaches to migrants. Immigrant integration is an increasingly important policy area for governments. However, in... Read more

Introduction: A Comparative Assessment of Intergovernmental Relations on Immigrant Integration in Multi-Level States

Ilke Adam and Eve Hepburn

1. Intergovernmental relations on immigrant integration in Canada: Insights from Quebec, Manitoba and Ontario

Sanjay Jeram and Eleni Nicolaides

2. Intergovernmental relations on immigrant integration in Italy: Insights from Piedmont and South Tyrol

Tiziana Caponio, Gaia Testore and Verena Wisthaler

3. Defying the traditional theses: Intergovernmental relations on immigrant integration in Belgium

Ilke Adam

4. Intergovernmental relations on immigrant integration in Spain: The case of Catalonia

Núria Franco-Guillén

Biography

Ilke Adam is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium, where she co-directs the Brussels Interdisciplinary Research centre on Migration and Minorities (BIRMM). She holds a PhD from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and has published widely on immigration and integration policies, multiculturalism, citizenship, anti-racism and multi-level politics.

Eve Hepburn is Honorary Fellow at the Europa Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK, where she previously held the position of Senior Lecturer in Politics & International Relations. She holds a PhD from the European University Institute and has published several books on immigration, nationalism, populist parties and multi-level politics.