IMISCOE Research Series Birgit Glorius Jeroen Doomernik Editors Geographies of Asylum in Europe and the Role of European Localities IMISCOE Research Series This series is the official book series of IMISCOE, the largest network of excellence on migration and diversity in the world. It comprises publications which present empirical and theoretical research on different aspects of international migration. The authors are all specialists, and the publications a rich source of information for researchers and others involved in international migration studies. The series is published under the editorial supervision of the IMISCOE Editorial Committee which includes leading scholars from all over Europe. The series, which contains more than eighty titles already, is internationally peer reviewed which ensures that the book published in this series continue to present excellent academic standards and scholarly quality. Most of the books are available open access. 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The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland Acknowledgments This edited volume would not have been possible without the generous help and support of many people and institutions. First of all, we are thankful to the authors who contributed with their research and who cooperated with us in a very produc- tive way. Even though the case studies in this volume were individually conceptual- ized and implemented, the authors did not work in isolation. Our main platform for communication about the book’s concept and the ongoing case studies was the IMISCOE network, notably our standing committee RELOCAL, which brings together researchers from various disciplines and countries who are interested in looking at how asylum, reception and integration processes are debated and enacted on the local level. Our collaboration was subsidized by the IMISCOE network. As a result, many authors had the opportunity to present and discuss their work at a RELOCAL meeting in Amsterdam in March 2016, and during IMISCOE’s annual conferences in Prague (June 2016) and Rotterdam (June 2017). We would like to express our gratitude to the members of the IMISCOE Editorial Committee for enthusiastically supporting our project, and to the two anonymous reviewers who provided us with many valuable comments that helped to strengthen the focus of the book and the interconnections of its parts. Additionally, the production costs of this volume have been partly sponsored by the IMISCOE budget for our Standing Committee, which we appreciate very much. Finally, we would like to thank our language editor Richard Thrift for linguistic fine-tuning, and Bernadette Deelen-Mans from Springer who made great efforts to get the book ready for publication. Chemnitz, Germany Birgit Glorius Amsterdam, The Netherlands Jeroen Doomernik v Contents 1 Introduction ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 1 Birgit Glorius and Jeroen Doomernik Part I Governing Asylum and Reception Within an Asylum System Under Stress 2 Dispersal and Reception in Northern Italy: Comparing Systems Along the Brenner Route. 15 Michela Semprebon and Gracy Pelacani 3 Legal Paradigm Shifts and Their Impacts on the Socio-Spatial Exclusion of Asylum Seekers in Denmark . 45 René Kreichauf 4 Places and Spaces of the Others. A German Reception Centre in Public Discourse and Individual Perception ������������������������ 69 Daniel Göler 5 Before and After the Reception Crisis of 2015: Asylum and Reception Policies in Austria . 93 Sieglinde Rosenberger and Sandra Müller Part II Perceptions and Discourses on Refugee Reception 6 Local Narrative-Making on Refugees: How the Interaction Between Journalists and Policy Networks Shapes the Media Frames ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 113 Andrea Pogliano and Irene Ponzo 7 Shaping the “Deserving Refugee”: Insights from a Local Reception Programme in Belgium. 135 Stiene Ravn, Rilke Mahieu, Milena Belloni, and Christiane Timmerman vii viii Contents 8 The Public Perception of the Migration Crisis from the Hungarian Point of View: Evidence from the Field �������������� 155 Bori Simonovits Part III Local Practices of Refugee Integration 9 Diverging Perspectives on “Integration” in the Vocational Education System: Evidence from an East German Periphery ���������� 179 Birgit Glorius and Anne-Christin Schondelmayer 10 Municipal Housing Strategies for Refugees. Insights from Two Case Studies in Germany ���������������������������������������� 201 Francesca Adam, Stefanie Föbker, Daniela Imani, Carmella Pfaffenbach, Günther Weiss, and Claus-C. Wiegandt 11 Arenas of Volunteering: Experiences, Practices and Conflicts of Voluntary Refugee Relief . 225 Annika Hoppe-Seyler 12 Local Innovation in the Reception of Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands: Plan Einstein as an Example of Multi-level and Multi-sector Collaboration �������������������������������������� 245 Karin Geuijen, Caroline Oliver, and Rianne Dekker 13 Conclusion ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 261 Jeroen Doomernik and Birgit Glorius Contributors Francesca Adam Institute for Geography, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany Milena Belloni ERC HOMinG. Department of Sociology, The University of Trento, Trento, Italy Rianne Dekker Department of Governance, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Jeroen Doomernik Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Stefanie Föbker Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany Karin Geuijen Department of Governance, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Birgit Glorius Institute of European Studies and History, TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany Daniel Göler Institute of Geography, Migration and Transition Studies, Bamberg, Germany Annika Hoppe-Seyler Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany Daniela Imani Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany René Kreichauf Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium Rilke Mahieu Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Sandra Müller Institute of Social Sciences, University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany ix x Contributors Caroline Oliver Institute of Education, University College London, London, UK Gracy Pelacani Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia Carmella Pfaffenbach Institute for Geography, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany Andrea Pogliano Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy Irene Ponzo FIERI – Forum of International and European Research on Immigration, Turin, Italy Stiene Ravn Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Sieglinde Rosenberger Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Anne-Christin Schondelmayer Department of Education Sciences, Section Heterogeneity, University Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany Michela Semprebon SSIIM