Local Governments and Social Movements in the ‘Refugee Crisis’: Milan and Barcelona as ‘Cities of Welcome’

Raffaele Bazurli

South European Society and Politics, 2019, vol. 24, issue 3, 343-370

Abstract: Amid the so-called ‘refugee crisis’, South European cities have experienced far-reaching societal transformations, magnified by flaws in multi-level governance. How can urban actors cope with such critical questions, which affect their communities and yet lie beyond their full jurisdiction? This article contends that left-leaning governments and ideologically sympathetic social-movement activists at the city-level are incentivised to join their forces. Alliance-building is a strategy to secure political gains while shaping policies within an otherwise unreceptive, hostile context. This argument is built by intersecting multiple scholarly contributions and illustrated through a comparison of pro-migrant policies in the cities of Milan and Barcelona.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2019.1637598

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