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Resilience in Local Housing Policy?: Liberal or Restrictive Policy Stances Among Swedish Municipalities Following the Great Migration in the Summer of 2015
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden.
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. (RCR)
2022 (English)In: Frontiers in Political Science, E-ISSN 2673-3145, Vol. 4, article id 885892Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The dramatic event that the great migration in the summer of 2015 entailed changed the migration policies of various countries. Substantial amendments were hastily made in a policy field in which already tense state-local relations struggled to manage coordination, responsibilities, and funding. Sweden, recognized as a final host country of the massive flows of refugees and asylum-seekers, was no exception. In Sweden, autonomy in terms of local refugee reception was circumvented in 2016. Municipalities’ remaining discretionis above all concentrated to one of the most crucial spheres of refugee reception:the outline of local housing policies. We argue that housing may be perceived as a tool of resilience that local governments may use to maintain far-reaching influence over the settlement of migrants with a refugee background by selecting restrictive orgenerous policy options. In this paper, we conduct a theoretically grounded analysis of local housing policy for refugees among Swedish municipalities. To capture the intrinsic dynamic, we propose a generic typology applying the dimension of either a liberalor a restrictive housing policy and relate it to theoretical notions of refugee policy as characterized by either a rights-based or a more restrictive approach. Our findings show that local governments in Sweden pursue a wide array of policy stances that appear to be correlated with factors originating from prior experiences of refugee reception, conditions in the labor and housing markets, and political circumstances. Based on this, we argue that local housing policy has offered municipalities a tool to exert a form of intentional, or unintentional, migration control despite national efforts to impose a more just system of refugee reception.

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Frontiers Media S.A., 2022. Vol. 4, article id 885892
Keywords [en]
migration, integration, resilience, Sweden, municipalities, local housing policy
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Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies)
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-45244DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2022.885892ISI: 000993553600001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85133636660OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-45244DiVA, id: diva2:1672495
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Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, SAB20-0023Available from: 2022-06-20 Created: 2022-06-20 Last updated: 2023-06-15Bibliographically approved

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