Toward an Urban Policy Analysis: Incorporating Participation, Multilevel Governance, and “Seeing Like a City”

Kaufmann, David; Sidney, Mara

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“…It decenters the national state from (migration) policy analysis and instead proposes an urbanized understanding of migration policy. This understanding strengthens "the urban" as the relevant object of investigation for researchers who want to examine how contemporary societal processes unfold on the ground, how they are problematized and what kind of policy contestation emerges around them (Magnusson 2011;Boudreau 2016;Enright 2020;Kaufmann and Sidney 2020). In this light, documentations of urban agency and urban policy-making also play an important role beyond the specific policies under scrutiny.…”

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“…This concept proposes an ideal where citizenship is based upon the mere reality of presence and residence in a place (Varsanyi, 2006). In this perspective, the city is not the lowest administrative level of a national state; instead, it is its own polity anchored in the everyday life of its residents (Kaufmann and Sidney, 2020; Magnusson, 2011). Urban policies and practices in support of irregular migrants can take multiple forms.…”

Section: Varieties Of Urban Policies In Support Of Irregular Migrantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Urbanising migration policy-making: Urban policies in support of irregular migrants in Geneva and Zürich

Kaufmann

2020

Urban Studies

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Cities worldwide develop a variety of urban policies that address the precarious situation of irregular migrants. By doing so, cities intervene in a policy-making realm that is commonly perceived as the prerogative of national states and they thereby challenge the national state as the only regulatory body over immigration and citizenship. We compare policy-making in support of irregular migrants in the two biggest Swiss cities of Geneva and Zürich. Whereas Genevan authorities and local societal actors established a successful regularisation programme (called Operation Papyrus), actors in Zürich aim to create an urban ID card programme (called Züri City Card). We find that the institutional setting of the two cities (as a city-state or as a city in a state), the presence or absence of multilevel governance networks as well as societal actors’ different venue shopping strategies are key for explaining these different urban policy-making processes. Cities formulate place-based urban policy responses, but these specific urban policies can be viewed within the global struggles to improve the precarious situations of irregular migrants and to fight exclusionary national politics. In essence, this article documents and explains how cities contest national state sovereignty over immigration and citizenship and it thereby calls for an urbanisation of migration theory and practice.

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Section: Varieties Of Urban Policies In Support Of Irregular Migrantsmentioning

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Urbanising migration policy-making: Urban policies in support of irregular migrants in Geneva and Zürich

Kaufmann

2020

Urban Studies

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“…While the above arguments pertain to elements of the institutional structures at the local level, urban policy responses are rarely 'local' (Bazurli, 2020). On the contrary, they emerge through interactions, negotiations and compromises between different levels of government (Kaufmann & Sidney, 2020). In this respect, the formal powers granted to local authorities in the field of reception of forced migrants (and in related policy areas) should be considered in the context of the multilevel governance of migration (Caponio & Jones-Correa, 2017).…”

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The role of local political leadership in the reception of forced migrants: evidence from Greece

Sabchev

2021

Territory, Politics, Governance

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This article focuses on the role of local political leadership in municipal policy responses to the arrival of forced migrants. Initially, I bring together insights from research on leadership, migration and crisis management to develop a conceptual framework for studying local political leadership in the reception of forced migrants. To this end, I adopt an interactionist perspective and define local political leadership as the product of the interaction between mayors and their leadership environment (institutional and societal context). Subsequently, I apply this conceptual framework to a qualitative comparative case study, using data from desk research and fieldwork in two Greek municipalities. The findings indicate that differences in local political leadership can lead to the development of very different municipal policy responses in the field of forced migrants' reception. In particular, I argue that by exercising interactive and multilevel political leadership, mayors can increase their chances of advancing strategic policy objectives in migration governance, and by extension, strengthen the protection and fulfilment of migrants' fundamental rights. Finally, in the light of the conceptual and empirical insights arising from this research, I emphasize the need to improve the dialogue between leadership and migration scholars, and suggest questions for future research.

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“…Social aspects are gaining more importance as key components of sustainable urban development, especially those related to the transformation of traditionally deprived areas (KriŽnik, 2018). In this context, the Social Economy has been considered a necessary partner to enrich governance processes leading to sustainable cities (Kaufmann and Sidney, 2020). Despite being recognized as a key contributor to sustainable development at both institutional (United Nations, 2015 and academic levels (Falcón and Fuentes, 2017;Chaves and Monzón, 2019), it still plays a minor role in the definition of urban policies.…”

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Social Value and Urban Sustainability in Food Markets

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Urban food markets can promote sustainable development through the generation of social value in the spaces where they are located and contribute to sustainability on a global scale. To measure this, indicators are required to evaluate and monitor these markets. Studies in this regard are scarce and often developed according to top-down schemes. This study seeks to remedy this relative deficiency and aims to design specific social sustainability metrics for these organizations from a bottom-up perspective. The Integrated Social Value model is used. This social accounting system is considered appropriate in this study due to the phenomenological approach on which it is based and is applied to a service cooperative located in the Canary Islands. The main contribution of this work is that new social sustainability indicators are obtained and applied to the analysis of an entity, and they are relevant and understandable to stakeholders. This would provide, in future developments, a system of sustainability indicators for similar organizations in Spain.

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Toward an Urban Policy Analysis: Incorporating Participation, Multilevel Governance, and “Seeing Like a City”

Cited by 29 publications

References 27 publications

Urbanising migration policy-making: Urban policies in support of irregular migrants in Geneva and Zürich

Urbanising migration policy-making: Urban policies in support of irregular migrants in Geneva and Zürich

The role of local political leadership in the reception of forced migrants: evidence from Greece

Social Value and Urban Sustainability in Food Markets

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