The Relational Approach to Local Immigration Policy

Filomeno, Felipe Amin

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“…This article aims to fill the gaps exhibited by these two strands by exploring the extent to which participating in TCNs creates the conditions in member cities for improving governance processes involving local governments and nonstate actors. In the migration literature, nonstate actors’ incorporation as allies, partners, and coproducers of local policies reflects the different political and policy directions that cities follow in overall migration governance (Filomeno 2017; Zapata-Barrero et al 2017). Nonstate actors’ incorporation into migration governance in cities has been connected to local politics (Caponio and Jones-Correa 2018), specifically to who is in power (De Graauw and Vermeulen 2016), to the local politicization of migration-related issues (Nicholls and Uitemark 2016), and to nonstate actors’ mobilization in response to political opportunities (Triviño-Salazar 2020).…”

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Transnational City Networks on Migration and Integration and Local Collaborative Governance: Establishing the Nexus

Triviño-Salazar

2023

International Migration Review

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Transnational city networks (TCNs) focused on international migration and migrant integration are an outcome of cities’ ever-larger role in migration governance beyond city boundaries. Although the nascent TCN literature has focused on networks’ emergence and expansion, TCNs’ effects on local actors within member cities remain underexplored. The article seeks to understand and explain the extent to which migration and integration TCNs contribute to collaboration between local governments and nonstate actors in member cities. To do so, I use collaborative governance to examine collaborative activities between local governments and nonstate actors in the context of two cities’ membership in TCNs: Barcelona and Rotterdam. My findings show that full collaboration, as the goal of collaborative governance, between local governments and nonstate actors within the framework of TCNs’ membership has not been achieved in the cities studied. Instead, I argue that collaboration with nonstate actors is selectively used by local governments to legitimize their position on TCNs and in the overall response to migration and integration. By establishing a nexus between TCNs and collaborative governance, the article offers a nuanced understanding of what collaboration between local governments and nonstate actors implies for (local) migration governance to migration scholarship. When collaboration does not reach its full potential, as findings show, then transnational debates on governing migration and integration from the city level become a distant reality for local nonstate actors, and by extension, local residents including migrants.

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Section: Tcns and Collaborative Governance: Toward An Analytical Fram...mentioning

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Transnational City Networks on Migration and Integration and Local Collaborative Governance: Establishing the Nexus

Triviño-Salazar

2023

International Migration Review

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“…This IMR Dispatch from the Field analyzes the Urban Partnership on Inclusion, in an effort to provide greater insight into a form of multilevel integration governance whose processes show three characteristics: Governance processes are institutionalized within an intergovernmental EU structure; Governance processes run upward from the local level to the EU level and downward from the EU level to the local level; Governance processes serve to, at least partially, circumvent a national cooperation gap . In the first section of this dispatch, we show how spotlighting the Urban Partnership on Inclusion can advance academic debates on the vertical dimension of migration studies’ “local turn,” which focuses on the interaction between local, national, and supranational authorities (Zapata-Barrero, Caponio, and Scholten 2017, 243). We argue that the Urban Partnership on Inclusion is difficult to grasp using existing “local turn” concepts, such as centralist, localist, and decoupled governance, but that the study of it can refine the concept of multilevel governance itself through a focus on parallel upward and downward mechanisms that partially skip the national level (Jorgensen 2012; Caponio and Jones-Correa 2018; Scholten et al 2018). In the second part, we add substance to these theoretical reflections by differentiating the Urban Partnership on Inclusion from city networks and analyzing Partnership action resulting from (1) city representatives’ strong will to move toward outcome-oriented and pragmatic cooperation with EU institutions (upward cooperation); (2) EU representatives’ high interest in local policy reality checks (downward cooperation); and (3) national representatives’ passivity in the Partnership coordination (cooperation gap).…”

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The EU Urban Partnership on Inclusion: Institutionalizing Local–Supranational Integration Governance

Stürner-Siovitz

Heimann

2022

International Migration Review

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In times when immigrant integration is considered both a highly salient political topic and a practical challenge by local, national, and European decision-makers, an analysis of the governance approach developed by the European Union (EU) Urban Partnership on Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees opens up new opportunities to advance research on migration studies’ “local turn.” In this IMR Dispatch from the Field, we argue that exploring the joint local-EU agenda-setting and cooperation in the Urban Partnership on Inclusion can refine understandings of multilevel governance. We argue that what is intriguing about the Urban Partnership on Inclusion for migration scholars is the institutionalization of local–supranational cooperation within an existing intergovernmental EU structure as a way to advance multilevel governance, even when the national level remains passive. Demonstrating the ways in which the Urban Partnership on Inclusion differs from city networks focused on questions of migration and integration, we show that the Urban Partnership on Inclusion offers a common structure to EU institutions and local authorities to coordinate agendas and actions, both from the local level upward and from the EU level downward while aiming to find ways around national passivity. Paying closer attention to such forms of institutionalized local–supranational governance developing within state-led structures, we suggest, can advance migration research and shed light on emerging local–supranational governance arrangements both at the European and the international levels.

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The Relational Approach to Local Immigration Policy

Cited by 2 publications

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Transnational City Networks on Migration and Integration and Local Collaborative Governance: Establishing the Nexus

Transnational City Networks on Migration and Integration and Local Collaborative Governance: Establishing the Nexus

The EU Urban Partnership on Inclusion: Institutionalizing Local–Supranational Integration Governance

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