There is a growing interest in the research community in the local governance of migration
and integration. Studies indicate a local turn in integration policies, with local governments …

In 2015–16 Germany was confronted with over 1 million new refugees, which challenged
public and private institutions alike and increasingly divided public sentiments. This article …

Migrants' integration process and their labour market inclusion occur within distinct local
contexts. However, the existing literature has paid little attention to the role of the local …

Amid a broader context of immigration federalism and debates over immigration policy in the
United States at the national level, states and municipalities in recent years have been …

Integration of recent refugees is gaining much attention in the aftermath of the European
'refugee crisis' and collaboration is often seen by public officials as vital to promoting …

In this article, we investigate local level reactions to the top-down state steering for the
housing of refugees in Sweden. We especially reflect on events after the increased refugee …

This article proposes that the role of cities in immigrant integration be reconsidered through
the prism of urban citizenship, looking at how local policies co-regulate immigrants' status …

This article examines how three major French cities designed their immigrant incorporation
policies in the early twenty-first century. While political and administrative structures are …

This open access book discusses Rotterdam as clear example of a superdiverse city that is
only reluctantly coming to terms with this new reality. Rotterdam, as is true for many post …

A growing number of studies have recently postulated a so-called local turn in the study of
immigrant and refugee integration policy. A fundamental, yet untested, assumption of this …