The Multi-Layered Governance of Migration in Italy: Policy Actors, Networks, and the Shaping of the Refugee 'Crisis' [Hardcover]

This book examines the various ways in which policymakers and political actors across different governmental levels have responded to the recent European refugee crisis, and the effects of these responses. Whereas previous studies have often focused on the discourses and policies implemented by national and local governments, this book shifts the focus to knowledge-formation and decision-making processes. Drawing on evidence from Italy  a country that has been centrally affected by the refugee crisis  the book examines policy processes regarding asylum-seeking migration at sub-national, national and EU level. It argues that policymakers at all levels of government can be influenced by perceptions of public attitudes towards immigration, and that these perceptions are often divorced from objective evidence. The book will appeal to all those interested in multilevel governance, migration studies, public policy, and European politics.

Chapter 1  introduction: the multi-layered governance of migration.- Chapter 2  the european refugee crisis in Italy.- Chapter 3  making sense of the refugee crisis.- Chapter 4 - migration governance and perceptions of public attitudes in veneto.- Chapter 5 - migration governance and perceptions of public attitudes in sicily.- Chapter 6 - migration governance and perceptions of public attitudes in Tuscany.- Chapter 7 - the drivers of subnational migration governance.- Chapter 8  the eu and italian asylum governance.- Chapter 9 - the multi-layered governance of the italian refugee crisis.- Chapter 10  conclusion: the multi-layered governance of migration.

Andrea Pettrachin is Researcher at the University of Turin, and Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy.

This landmark text provides an informed, accessible and essential guide to the politics of migration and asylum in Italy and, by doing so, highlights the tensions, ambiguities and, at times, contrl¼