Migrant Reception Policies in a Multilevel System: Framing and Implementation Structures in the Italian Regions

Campomori, Francesca; Caponio, Tiziana

doi:10.1057/9781137358530_7

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“…Furthermore, different approaches to immigrant integration are likely to emerge in federal countries (Joppke and Seidle 2012). Devolution of competence to regional levels of government seems to produce a similar scattered picture in Italy (Campomori and Caponio, 2014). However, more research is needed in order to understand which factors and processes can lead to the emergence of distinct frames of integration at intermediate levels of government, such as regional and, in federal systems, state ones.…”

Section: Part One: the Horizontal Dimension: The Local Governance Of mentioning

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Theorizing the ‘local turn’ in a multi-level governance framework of analysis: a case study in immigrant policies

Zapata‐Barrero

Caponio

Scholten

2017

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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Section: Part One: the Horizontal Dimension: The Local Governance Of mentioning

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Theorizing the ‘local turn’ in a multi-level governance framework of analysis: a case study in immigrant policies

Zapata‐Barrero

Caponio

Scholten

2017

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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118

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“…One of the most important of these is certainly the district municipality, which provides many services to support the refugees in the district. The accomplishments of this municipality recalls the example of Italian cities, where local authorities play an important role for migrant integration in a context of neglectful official policies limited to emergency measures (Campomori and Caponio, 2014). In the Turkish context, characterized by a highly centralized political tradition, municipalities have always been less powerful than the central government.…”

Section: Meso-level Actors Of Refugee Reception In Sultanbeylimentioning

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A Faithful Alliance Between the Civil Society and the State: Actors and Mechanisms of Accommodating Syrian Refugees in Istanbul

Danış

Nazlı

2018

International Migration

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Reception, hospitality and integration are certainly the main challenges of the contemporary world, particularly for countries like Turkey which hosts more than 3 million refugees from Syria. The aim of this article is to analyze the reception practices of civil society organizations and the nature of these bodies’ relationship with state agencies by focusing on Sultanbeyli, a peripheral district of Istanbul. Based on a fieldwork conducted in this district, we present the functioning of various state and non‐state actors in order to uncover not only the role of NGOs, but also the nature of the relations between them and the state in terms of governance of refugee reception in Turkey. We thus argue that the reception of Syrian refugees is undertaken by a “faithful” alliance between the state and certain NGOs, a partnership where civil society assumes a supporting role to the state in refugee reception.

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“…At a national level, Italian policy and practice address migrant arrivals as an emergency issue (Campomori & Caponio, 2014;Marchetti, 2014). In border locations like the island of Lampedusa and other ports of first disembarkation, humanitarian responses are institutionallydriven and highly securitized (Tazzioli & Garelli, 2018).…”

Section: The Hub At the Core Of Migrant Routesmentioning

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“…The Hub was operational for over three years, yet activities always remained characterized as temporary measures, adapting to seasonal fluctuations in the numbers and composition of incoming migrants. This approach follows a logic that is in line with Italian national institutional framings of migrant arrivals as an emergency issue (Campomori & Caponio, 2014;Marchetti, 2014) and temporarily addresses only the superficial consequencesthe threats to bare life-of a deeper structural problem. Civil support initiatives at the Hub were funded through short-term tendered contracts with municipal authorities, in which the mandate was to cater for migrants' basic needs.…”

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Humanitarianism as Politics: Civil Support Initiatives for Migrants in Milan’s Hub

Sinatti¹

2019

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Humanitarianism is increasingly used to address migration in Europe, from search and rescue operations at sea to reception on land. Scholars often interpret humanitarianism as a means for states to depoliticize migration and prioritize securitization. In this article, I analyze perspectives on humanitarianism among civil society volunteers and workers who, alongside institutions, deliver humanitarian support to migrants. Civil initiatives in this field by independent volunteers, non-governmental organizations and charities have surged, thus shifting tasks traditionally under the responsibility of the state to non-state actors. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in and around the premises of the Hub (a center providing humanitarian assistance to migrants transiting in the Italian city of Milan), I show that engaging in such civil support initiatives raises the levels of political awareness and activism among ordinary citizens. Through insight into the daily actions, motivations and aims of the men and women operating at the Hub, I show that their involvement in humanitarian assistance marks the beginning of a personal journey in which they gradually conceive what they do as far from being in support of depoliticizing state securitization policies and rather as politically loaded.

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Migrant Reception Policies in a Multilevel System: Framing and Implementation Structures in the Italian Regions

Cited by 11 publications

References 3 publications

Theorizing the ‘local turn’ in a multi-level governance framework of analysis: a case study in immigrant policies

Theorizing the ‘local turn’ in a multi-level governance framework of analysis: a case study in immigrant policies

A Faithful Alliance Between the Civil Society and the State: Actors and Mechanisms of Accommodating Syrian Refugees in Istanbul

Humanitarianism as Politics: Civil Support Initiatives for Migrants in Milan’s Hub

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