Governing Integration Policies in a Multi-Level Setting: Austria and Czechia Compared

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=WI9dLgvhvb" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=WI9dLgvhvb</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.54667/ceemr.2024.15" target="_blank" >10.54667/ceemr.2024.15</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Governing Integration Policies in a Multi-Level Setting: Austria and Czechia Compared

Original language description

In migration studies, scholars differ in their emphasis on which level of government plays the central role in immigrant integration policies. There are voices drawing attention to a &apos;local turn&apos;, highlighting the rising power of local actors in immigrant integration. At the same time, other authors point to a &apos;national turn&apos;, connected to the introduction of civic integration policies - or even the Europeanisation of integration policies coming from the supranational level. In order to better understand how integration policies are governed, this article compares the Austrian and Czech governance of these policies, examining the relationship between the different levels of government involved. The analysis is based on Scholten&apos;s typology of centralist, localist, decoupling and multi-level forms of governance. It asks how integration policies are governed in Austria and Czechia and how their governance changed with the implementation of civic integration policies. While centralist and decoupling tendencies appeared in the Austrian case, a multi-level governance approach emerged with civic integration in Czechia. These results disprove the assumption of a supposedly more likely multi-level governance approach in a federal state and a more centralised logic under the unitary regime, as suggested by the literature.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Central and Eastern European Migration Review

ISSN

2300-1682

e-ISSN

2300-1682

Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

55-75

UT code for WoS article

001375805800003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85213303909