CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Silva, Monica |
|---|---|
| Title | Cities of Welcome, Indifference and Refuse - Comparing Cities' Response to the Migration Influxes of 2015 and 2022 |
| Summary | Cities are emerging in the international arena as actors capable of bringing innovative solutions to transnational challenges, namely in the field of migration. The general response of the European Union (EU) and its member states to the 2015 migration influx was based on the securitization of asylums seekers, militarization of borders, and externalization of the asylum-seeking process; on the contrary, the response to the migration influx of 2022, resulted in European cooperation, a loose borders approach, and a commitment to welcome. Given the discrepancy and discriminatory responses at national and European levels, the following question arises: did cities exhibit the same behavior? This thesis aims to compare and analyze cities' responses to both migration influxes by identifying the main local policies and discourses of local authorities of the cities of Barcelona, Milan, Warsaw, and Budapest. Even though previous research most often characterizes big European cities as cities of welcome, this thesis concluded that not all cities exhibited a clear non-discriminatory response during both periods, fitting better under the classification of cities of indifference and cities of refuse. |
| Supervisor | LaRoche, Christopher |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/silva_monica.pdf |
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