Challenging the Nation-State from within: The Emergence of Transmunicipal Solidarity in the Course of the EU Refugee Controversy

Christiane Heimann, Sandra Müller, Hannes Schammann and Janina Stürner
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Christiane Heimann: Migration Policy Research Group, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Sandra Müller: Migration Policy Research Group, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Hannes Schammann: Migration Policy Research Group, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Janina Stürner: Centre for Area Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Social Inclusion, 2019, vol. 7, issue 2, 208-218

Abstract: In the context of the so-called refugee crisis, political disputes about solidarity become a central issue with member states applying competing concepts. At the same time, European cities use transnational networks to implement a new form of solidarity among municipalities via city diplomacy (Acuto, Morissette, & Tsouros, 2017). Analyzing the deadlock between member states and the emerging activities of cities, we scrutinize the limits of existing approaches to political solidarity (e.g., Agustín & Jørgensen, 2019; Knodt, Tews, & Piefer, 2014; Sangiovanni, 2013) to explain this phenomenon. Based on expert interviews and document analysis from a study on transnational municipal networks, we identify an emerging concept of solidarity that challenges the nation states as core providers of solidarity from within: transmunicipal solidarity focuses on joint action of local governments to scale out and scale up.

Keywords: city networks; concepts of solidarity; European Union; integration policy; migration policy; refugee controversy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.17645/si.v7i2.1994

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