Exploring the Integration of Post-2014 Migrants in Small and Medium-sized Towns and Rural Areas from a Whole of Community Perspective

Project Information

Whole-COMM

Grant agreement ID: 101004714

DOI

10.3030/101004714

Project closed

EC signature date 10 November 2020

Start date 1 January 2021

End date 30 June 2024

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Europe In A Changing World - Inclusive, Innovative And Reflective Societies

Total cost

€ 3 165 216,25

EU contribution

€ 2 998 550,00

Coordinated by

FONDAZIONE COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO
Italy

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (17)

Country Reports on policy outcomes

9 Country reports n the policy outcomes in terms of reciprocal attitudes, social relations and migrants’ integration experiences and the, including evidence from semi-experimental research.

Policy Brief on impact on local communities

Policy Brief on the impact of integration policy on the quality of local communities’ social relations and migrants’ experiences of integration in the local community, including evidence from semi-experimental research

Comparative working paper on integration

Comparative Working Paper on the interplay between local integration policies, structures of support and street-level (bureaucracy) practices in shaping specific modes of post-2014 migrants’ access to rights and social services in SMsTRA

Policy Toolbox

A set of actions with specific sub-recommendations for fostering a WoC approach to migrant integration and social cohesion in SMsTRA (Whole-COMM Policy Toolbox).

Country Reports on integration

10 Country reports on integration policies, structures/networks of support, modes of mobilisation and street level bureaucracy practices of access to social services in SMsTRA

Policy brief on local policies

Policy Brief on how local policies, structures of support and practices can improve post-2014 migrant integration and equality in access to rights

Working Paper on the WoC approach to integration

Working Paper ‘Explaining integration policies and processes of post-2014 migrants in SMsTRA in Europe. A WoC approach’

Data inventory report

A data inventory report on available data and important local and regional data gaps on attitudes towards integration of asylum seekers in SMsTRA, policy impact on social cohesion and immigrant integration processes

Final DCP

Final Dissemination and communication plan (DCP) including visual identity, e-newsletters, blogs, media products, audiovisual highlights and products, including a 60-second final clip (summarizing key research results and key policy recommendations)

Country Reports on multilevel dynamics

10 Country reports on the multilevel dynamics of post2014 migrants in SMsTRA

Comparative Working Paper on multilevel dynamics

Comparative Working Paper on multilevel governance and multilevel conflictual dynamics across countries and (different types of) SMsTRA

Conceptual and methodological Working Paper

Working Paper: ‘The WoC approach to the study of post-2014 migrants’ integration in SMsTRA. State of the art, concepts, theory and methodology’

Policy Brief on multilevel governance

Policy Brief on the role of multilevel governance in shaping responses to post-2014 migrants in SMsTRA

Comparative Working paper on policy outcomes

Comparative Working paper on the policy outcomes in terms of reciprocal attitudes, social relations and migrants’ integration experiences (in terms of labour market, language, social security and financial situation, social interactions and embracement of the receiving community and European values whenever possible), including evidence from semi-experimental research. WP5 policy outcomes will also feed into the final EC policy brief (Deliverable D22).

Strategy Paper and final EC policy brief

Whole-COMM Strategy Paper and final EC policy brief (See above under the D18 description, for more details on the EC policy brief).In particular the final EC policy brief will also report results of migrants’ integration experiences (i.e. in terms of labour market, language, social security and financial situation, Western European values (e.g. equality men/women; respect for gay rights etc.) embracement, whenever possible.

Policy Brief on on policy impact

Policy Brief on how to foster social cohesion and more positive attitudes towards integration of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in SMsTRA

Comparative working paper on policy impact

Comparative working paper on policy impact on social cohesion and immigrant integration processes and on the determinants of attitudes towards the integration of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in SMsTRA

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Final DMP

Final Data Management Plan

Publications

Other (1)

A Whole-of-Community Approach to Study Post-2014 Migrants in Small and Medium-Sized Towns and Rural Areas

Author(s): Tiziana Caponio and Andrea Pettrachin
Published in: 2021
Publisher: Whole-COMM website

Peer reviewed articles (8)

The Political Drivers of Horizontal Governance Relations in Small Localities: Evidence from a Cross-Country and Cross-Locality Study Across Seven Western European Countries

Author(s): Andrea Pettrachin, Giacomo Solano
Published in: Urban Affairs Review, 2024, ISSN 1078-0874
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/10780874241270050

Are small towns a battleground for migration governance? Negotiating refugee integration in small towns in the Netherlands

Author(s): Elina Jonitz, Maria Schiller, Peter Scholten
Published in: Local Government Studies, 2024, Page(s) 1-23, ISSN 0300-3930
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2024.2357306

Invisibility and (Dis)Integration: Examining the Meaning of Migrant Inclusion in Everyday Lived Experience in Rural Areas

Author(s): Leila Giannetto, Shirley Van der Maarel
Published in: Social Inclusion, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 2183-2803
Publisher: Cogitatio Press
DOI: 10.17645/si.7771

Integration Policy Networks and the Potential for Local Integration Policy Diffusion in European Small- and Medium-Sized Towns and Rural Areas: A Comparative Analysis

Author(s): Andrea Pettrachin
Published in: Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 2024, Page(s) 1-24, ISSN 1387-6988
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2024.2371419

Who is responsible for migrant integration? Contextual political drivers of governance actors’ responsibility frames in small and medium European localities

Author(s): Andrea Pettrachin, Tiziana Caponio, Camilla Borgna
Published in: Local Government Studies, 2024, Page(s) 1-23, ISSN 0300-3930
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2024.2401916

Understanding arrival contexts of local refugee reception using a ‘phase space’ perspective

Author(s): Friederike Enßle‐Reinhardt, Birgit Glorius, Hanne Schneider
Published in: Population, Space and Place, 2024, ISSN 1544-8444
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/psp.2776

Why failed asylum seekers should have a conditional right to stay: an ethical guideline for policy debates

Author(s): Leila Hadj Abdou, Eszter Kollar
Published in: Comparative Migration Studies, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 2214-594X
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1186/s40878-024-00373-4

More than a number: Exploring the impact of age(ing) on refugees’ experiences of arrival

Author(s): Friederike Enßle-Reinhardt
Published in: Journal of Refugee Studies, 2024, ISSN 0951-6328
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/jrs/feae061

Book chapters (2)

Towards a Second Generation Research Agenda on Local Integration Policies?

Author(s): Andrea Pettrachin, Tiziana Caponio
Published in: Handbook on Migration and Integration Policy, 2024
Publisher: Edward Elgar

Migration in rural localities and the rise of the radical right. Unpacking the nexus

Author(s): Tiziana Caponio, Andrea Pettrachin
Published in: Handbook of international migration in small towns and rural areas, 2024
Publisher: Edward Elgar