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City Networks in Multilevel Policymaking on Migration. A Least-Likely Case for MLG?

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This chapter is dedicated to a discussion of the migration studies literature that has addressed from different perspectives—i.e. EU policymaking, paradiplomacy and urban policy—the emergence of a CN-MLG link. More specifically, I review the scholarly debate on the local dimension of migration policy by first considering literature that focuses on policy outputs (3.2) and then studies that conceptualise policy as processes and look at cities in the context of multilevel policymaking dynamics. In the fourth section I further develop my theoretical framework by first discussing the main hypotheses on the migration CN-MLG nexus that can be drawn from the—scarce—existing literature and then building an actor-centred and relational interpretative framework. In Sect. 3.5 I provide details of the methodology and data sources for my empirical study of migration CNs in the EU and the US, and I introduce the CNs I have observed.

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Caponio, T. (2022). City Networks in Multilevel Policymaking on Migration. A Least-Likely Case for MLG?. In: Making Sense of the Multilevel Governance of Migration. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82551-5_3

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