Schiller Maria, Hackett Sarah
1Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany.
2Reader in Modern European History, Bath Spa University, Newton St. Loe, Bath, BA2 9BN UK.
Comp Migr Stud. 2018;6(1):2. doi: 10.1186/s40878-017-0067-x. Epub 2018 Feb 6.
European cities are increasingly being recognised for the role they play in devising and implementing their own migration, integration and diversity policies. Yet very little is known about the local dimension of immigrant policymaking in crisis contexts. This introductory piece offers a rationale for analysing city-level immigrant policies in times of crisis and the salience of using crisis as a metaphor for the state of things, and outlines key scholarly works, debates, concepts and theories. It provides a range of historical and contemporary examples and considerations, and introduces an empirical city case study that is published as part of this mini-symposium. It argues that a crisis lens leads to a systematic understanding of local-level immigrant policymaking in recent and contemporary Western Europe. The mini-symposium's focus and findings should be relevant to both on-going academic and policy debates.
欧洲城市在制定和实施自身移民、融合及多元化政策方面所发挥的作用日益得到认可。然而，对于危机背景下移民政策制定的地方层面，我们知之甚少。这篇引言文章阐述了在危机时期分析城市层面移民政策的理由，以及将危机用作事物状态隐喻的重要性，并概述了关键的学术著作、辩论、概念和理论。它提供了一系列历史和当代的例子及思考，并介绍了一个实证性的城市案例研究，该研究作为本次小型研讨会的一部分发表。文章认为，从危机视角出发能够系统地理解近现代西欧地方层面的移民政策制定。本次小型研讨会的重点和研究结果应与正在进行的学术和政策辩论相关。
