Autori
Campomori, Francesca
Casula, Mattia
Bazurli, Raffaele

Titolo
Shelter from the Storm: "Virtuous" Systems of Urban Asylum Governance Coping with Italy's Immigration Crackdown
Periodico
Politiche Sociali
Anno: 2020 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 201 - Pagina finale: 224

Immigration and asylum became tremendously contested in Italy over the last decade. Especiallysince 2017, left-leaning executives eroded asylum rights for the sake of competingwith their right-wing opponents. The climax was then reached in 2018, when MatteoSalvini – leader of the far-right Lega party and newly appointed Minister of the Interior– authored the «Security Decree I» as a spearhead of his anti-immigration platform.These new provisions restricted the access to, and the contents of, international protection,along with the role of local governments in policymaking. This article explores theshockwave of this restrictive turn on «virtuous» systems of urban asylum governance,as well as their capacity for resistance. Theoretically, the study draws on the multi-levelgovernance approach to migration studies, which is however complemented throughan enhanced analytical focus on conflictual and horizontal interactions. Empirically, wepresent a case study research on Bologna and Parma. The asylum systems of these twocities – consisting of small-scale, high-quality reception centers and based on sustainedcooperation between state and non-state actors – were put under heavy pressure. However,only Bologna proved able to (partly) resist the asylum crackdown and maintain thecooperative relations between state and non-state actors. This outcome owes to a set ofdriving forces at the local level – namely, a left-leaning local government and political subculture,a long-standing tradition of progressive welfare policies, and a vast constellationof civil society organizations. We suggest that these findings have significant implicationsfor practitioners wanting to oppose anti-immigration policies locally.



SICI: 2284-2098(2020)2<201:SFTS"S>2.0.ZU;2-3
Testo completo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.7389/97986
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