International Migrations and Local Governance

Thomas Lacroix is CNRS research fellow at Migrinter, University of Poitiers, France.

Amandine Desille is a researcher at Migrinter, University of Poitiers, France, and the School of Geography and Human Environment, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the role of local governments around the world in the management of the migration, integration and development nexus. Drawing on case studies from the Global North and South, this comparative work fills a lacuna in the existing literature which has focused largely on migration as addressed by European and North American cities. Further, it widens the current debate by confronting northern experiences with attitudes and strategies observed in sending countries; clearly demonstrating that international mobility has become a global issue for cities at both end of the migration spectrum. This innovative work will provide a valuable resource for students and scholars working in the social sciences, public policy and development; in addition to practitioners and policymakers.

Argues that the diffusion of neoliberal governance frameworks and transfers of responsibilities from national to local levels are a worldwide phenomenon explaining why local authorities have become key actors in the global management of the migration, integration and development nexus

1: Introduction.- Part 1: Diversity in the city: a new paradigm for integration in a knowledge-based economy.- 2: Migration Governance in Three European Cities: New Local Paradigms?.- 3: Immigrant rights as an exercise in urban branding: the case of Philadelphia (2008-2015).- 4: Multilevel Governance and Migration: conflicts among Levels of Governance in the South Tyrol Case.- Part 2: The transnational governance of development.- 5: Local governance, civil society and migrants' support to local development: perspectives from Morocco.- 6: Decentralisation and territorialisation of migratory resources in Mali: toward which local and transnational governance?.- 7: Migrant Organizations and Local Government Cooperation for Development Programmes: A Comparative Analysis of Two Competing Local Authorities in Lyon, France.- Part 3: The dust under the carpet: the local and its discontent.- 8: UK Localism: Unprecedented opportunity for local migrant integration policies or "white elephant"?.- 9: 'Every Tom, Dick, and Harry': Understanding the changing role of the South African immigration industry.- 10: The multilevel (mis)governance of Roma migration in the City of Naples.- 11: The Limits of Local Citizenship Policies in Japan.- 12: Conclusion: Archipelagos and Estuaries: Mobility, Local Authorities and the Governance of Multiple Elsewheres.