Local Integration of Migrants Policy

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Between Central Control and Local Autonomy - the Changing Role of Swedish Municipalities in the Implementation of Integration Policies.- Chapter 3: The Norwegian case. Integration through local autonomy and institutionalization.- Chapter 4: Finland's immigration policy: state objectives, local solutions.- Chapter 5: The Swiss Rationale of Integration Policies: Balancing Federalism, Consociationalism and Direct Democracy.- Chapter 6: Threats and opportunities from Dutch migration.- Chapter 7: Germany: From Denied Immigration to Integration of Migrants.- Chapter 8: Irelands evolving migrant policy: recurring rhetoric, sporadic action.- Chapter 9: Reception of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in France: Between Rigour and Humanism.- Chapter 10: Immigration and integration policies in Poland: institutional, political and social perspectives.- Chapter 11: Slovenian migration management at the local level.- Chapter 12: Local integration policy of migrants in Croatia: In search of coherence and capacity.- Chapter 13: Romania's Policy of Migration and Integration: Unattractive Host Nation and Alternative Transit Route.- Chapter 14: Challenges of Immigrant Integration in Spanish Local Governments.- Chapter 15: Internal Geopolitics and Migration Policies in Italy.- Chapter 16: Public opinion on migration and the role of the media in the context of the "European refugee crisis".- Chapter 17: Integrating immigrants. Capacities and Challenges for Local Authorities in Europe.- Chapter 18: Conclusion and Outlook.

Jochen Franzke is a Professor of Administrative Science at the Faculty of Economics and Social Science, University of Potsdam, Germany. His main research fields are comparative sub-national public administrative reforms and new forms of local governance and citizen participation. He is a member of the Board of the Institute of Local Government Studies (University of Potsdam) and Co-chair of the Permanent Study Group on Local Governance and Democracy at the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA). He has been a visiting scholar at several European universities.

José M. Ruano de la Fuente is a Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain, and has been a visiting scholar at several European and American universities. His main research fields are comparative public administration and local governance. Currently, he is Vice-President of the European association Entretiens Universitaires Réguliers pour l'Administration en Europe (EUROPA), President of its Scientific Committee, and Co-chair of the Permanent Study Group on Local Governance and Democracy at the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA). He is Co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Decentralisation in Europe.