The reception of asylum seekers in Italy has become an increasingly contentious issue:
many actors, public and private, are involved at various levels of government, and …

Scholars embrace multilevel governance as an analytical framework for complex problems,
such as climate change or water pollution. However, the elements needed to …

The multi-level governance (MLG) approach is widely used to understand the complex
processes of immigration policymaking. In this literature review, we consider both (i) the …

Cities claim an ever-larger role in migration governance, often by means of progressive
policies that “decouple” the local from the national. The literature on this “local turn” has …

Full article: Introduction to Special issue: ‘migration governance in an era of large movements:
a multi-level approach’* Skip to Main Content Taylor and Francis Online homepage Taylor and …

This article draws on comparative evidence from four American and European cities–San
Francisco, Houston, Barcelona, and Milan–to develop a framework for explaining variation …

This article explores the responses of European local authorities to the public service needs
of residents with irregular immigration status and the tensions with national governments to …

Scholarship has sought to develop theoretical frameworks to set order on the rather
muddled web of actors, interactions and tensions involved in asylum and immigration …

This paper takes stock of the emerging literature on the governance and framing of both
migration and asylum as 'crises'. This study carries forward this line of thinking by showing …

This paper argues in favour of a radical de-centring of our understanding of international
migration governance that privileges the viewpoints of origin and transit countries, non-state …