From Integration to Solidarity: Insights from Civil Society Organisations in Three European Cities

Viviana d'Auria, Racha Daher and Katharina Rohde
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Viviana d'Auria: Department of Architecture, KU Leuven, Belgium
Racha Daher: Department of Architecture, KU Leuven, Belgium
Katharina Rohde: Department of Architecture, KU Leuven, Belgium

Urban Planning, 2018, vol. 3, issue 4, 79-90

Abstract: This article sheds light on the lack of cohesion in asylum approaches between EU member states and questions the dominance of the ‘integration’ paradigm. It argues that civil society organisations (CSOs) have, through solidarity, challenged the bias ‘integration’ involves and the exclusion it generates. To do this, it examines three case-based practices led by CSOs that operate in three European capital cities—Rome, Brussels and Berlin—and that embrace mobility in the context of front-line, transit and destination countries, respectively. With the ‘refugee crisis’ of 2015 acting as a threshold moment, the cases navigate a complex web of relationships amidst a fragmented debate about asylum, and varying national and local frameworks in Europe. Through the comparison of cases, the article argues that the political possibilities of such practices and their enduring engagements with the urban, remain limited. However, the shift in discourse from ‘stasis’ and ‘integration’ to ‘mobility’ and ‘solidarity’ that the three cases embody, represent a critique that fundamentally challenges urban planning and its role for asylum.

Keywords: asylum; civil society organisations; displacement; integration; solidarity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.17645/up.v3i4.1688

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