Intergovernmental Relations on Immigrant Integration in Multi-Level States (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Adam, Ilke; Hepburn, Eve

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how governments in multi-level states coordinate immigrant integration policies. It sheds light on how the decentralization of immigrant integration to substate regions can lead to conflict or cooperation, and how a variety of factors may shape different approaches to migrants.

Immigrant integration is an increasingly important policy area for governments. However, in multi-level states, immigrant integration is rarely the responsibility of the 'central' government. Instead, it is often decentralized to substate regions, which may have formulated their own, unique approaches. The way in which migrants are included into one part of a state may therefore be radically different from the experiences of migrants in another. How do multi-level states deal with potentially diverging approaches? This book examines how governments coordinate on immigrant integration in multi-level states. Four multi-level states form the backbone of the analysis: two of which are federal (Canada and Belgium) and two that are decentralized (Italy and Spain). We find that intergovernmental dynamics on immigrant integration are shaped by a variety of factors ranging from party politics to constitutional power struggles. This analysis contributes not only to our understanding of intergovernmental relations in multi-level systems; it also enhances our knowledge of the myriad ways in which different regions seek to include migrants into their societies, economies and political systems.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Regional and Federal Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000425192
• Artikelnr.: 61952192

Autorenporträt

Ilke Adam is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium, where she co-directs the Brussels Interdisciplinary Research centre on Migration and Minorities (BIRMM). She holds a PhD from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and has published widely on immigration and integration policies, multiculturalism, citizenship, anti-racism and multi-level politics. Eve Hepburn is Honorary Fellow at the Europa Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK, where she previously held the position of Senior Lecturer in Politics & International Relations. She holds a PhD from the European University Institute and has published several books on immigration, nationalism, populist parties and multi-level politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Comparative Assessment of Intergovernmental Relations on
Immigrant Integration in Multi-Level States
Ilke Adam and Eve Hepburn
1. Intergovernmental relations on immigrant integration in Canada: Insights
from Quebec, Manitoba and Ontario
Sanjay Jeram and Eleni Nicolaides
2. Intergovernmental relations on immigrant integration in Italy: Insights
from Piedmont and South Tyrol
Tiziana Caponio, Gaia Testore and Verena Wisthaler
3. Defying the traditional theses: Intergovernmental relations on immigrant
integration in Belgium
Ilke Adam
4. Intergovernmental relations on immigrant integration in Spain: The case
of Catalonia
Núria Franco-Guillén