Zeitschrift fur Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
Volume 12, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 75-92

Perspectives on refugee migration in East and West: A comparative analysis of local integration practices [Perspektiven auf Fluchtmigration in Ost und West: Ein vergleichender Blick auf kommunale Integrationspraxis] (Article)

Glorius B.* , Schondelmayer A.-C.
  • a Institut für Europäische Studien, TU Chemnitz, Thüringer Weg 9, Chemnitz, 09126, Germany
  • b Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft, Arbeitsbereich 1: Heterogenität, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Bürgerst. 23, 095, Landau i.d. Pfalz, 76829, Germany

Abstract

The article examines the communal reception of refugees using examples from the rural areas of Saxony and Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The analysis is based on approaches from sociology of knowledge, focusing on collective patterns of orientation and argumentation. As a central hypothesis, the article assumes that there is a connection between attitudes towards strangers and local practices concerning the reception, accommodation and integration of refugees. The results confirm the hypotheses and, by creating a typology, point to differentiating aspects in the emergence of a local welcoming culture. These are based on structural features and collective experiences of the locality as well as on different approaches towards local governance. © 2017, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, ein Teil von Springer Nature.

Author Keywords

Area studies Welcoming culture Refugee migration Governance

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85042410051&doi=10.1007%2fs12286-017-0368-3&partnerID=40&md5=14f19ecee51a6b4815ccb601de3c16d5
DOI: 10.1007/s12286-017-0368-3
ISSN: 18652646
Cited by: 2
Original Language: German