Migrants with a Precarious Status: Evolving Approaches of European Cities [Hardcover]

This open access book is an exploration of city responses to migrants with a precarious status in Europe. It provides new evidence and analysis from research on three cities in Austria, Germany and the UK: Vienna, Frankfurt and Cardiff. The book explores strategies and services of municipal authorities towards precarious migrants and their cooperation with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in service provision. It focuses on healthcare, education, housing and access to advice; and particular attention is given to the situation of women.The book develops the concept of precarity in relation to migration status, and of horizontal governance arrangements within municipal authorities. It explores the tension between exclusion and inclusion of migrants who have limited rights of access to welfare services, and contributes evidence on the factors shaping municipal policy making, as well as on the framing of rationales for providing access to essential services.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Shaping of Municipal Policies on Inclusion.- Chapter 3. Contextualising three cities: migrant populations and regulatory frameworks.- Chapter 4. Cardiff.- Chapter 5. Frankfurt.- Chapter 6. Vienna.- Chapter 7. City approaches compared.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.

Sarah Spencer was the first Director of the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity at the University of Oxford and is a former Deputy Director of COMPAS where she is an Emeritus Fellow. She represented COMPAS on the IMISCOE Board of Directors and was chair of the Board from 2018  2022. Sarahs research has focused on human rights, integration and migrants with an irregular status, on which recent publications include Spencer, S. (2022). The Contested Concept of Integration in P. Scholten (Ed) Introduction to Migration Studies: An Interactive Guide to the Llð