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From Integration to Solidarity: Insights from Civil Society Organisations in Three European Cities
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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 genera... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
EU; asylum policy; integration; solidarity; civil society; refugee; migration; urban planning; Italy; Belgium; Federal Republic of Germany
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Free Keywords
civil society organisations
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 79-90
Journal
Urban Planning, 3 (2018) 4
Issue topic
European Cities Planning for Asylum
ISSN
2183-7635
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed