Local challenges and national concerns: municipal level responses to national refugee settlement policies in Denmark and Sweden
Contributor(s): MYBERG, Gunnar
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BookPublisher: Bruxelles IIAS 2017Description: 17 p. P 322.ISSN: ISSN 00208523.Subject(s): Denmark | multi-level government | Migration | refugees | regional and local governance | SwedenSummary: This article investigates how Danish and Swedish national policies vis-à-vis refuges and asylum seekers are perceived, and responded to, at the municipal level in the cities of Aarhus and Malmö. As will be spelled out in the article, municipal representatives raised their voices in both Denmark and Sweden during the middle of the 1990s, arguing that their municipalities had to carry a larger 'burden of reception' than they could mange, and they thus urged for changes in the national level was dramatically different in Denmark than in Sweden, however. This is today apparent not only in the sheer numbers of newcomers but also in municipal introduction practices as well as in the institutional memories of municipal officials.
This article investigates how Danish and Swedish national policies vis-à-vis refuges and asylum seekers are perceived, and responded to, at the municipal level in the cities of Aarhus and Malmö. As will be spelled out in the article, municipal representatives raised their voices in both Denmark and Sweden during the middle of the 1990s, arguing that their municipalities had to carry a larger 'burden of reception' than they could mange, and they thus urged for changes in the national level was dramatically different in Denmark than in Sweden, however. This is today apparent not only in the sheer numbers of newcomers but also in municipal introduction practices as well as in the institutional memories of municipal officials.
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