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- Kotze, Shelley, et al.
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Micro-geographies of administration: A wolf in sheep's clothing? The impact of trust on a street-level approach to immigrant integration
- 2024
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Ingår i: Acta Scientiarum Polonorum Administratio Locorum. - 1644-0749 .- 2450-0771. ; 23:2, s. -280
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Increased global migration to welfare states puts pressure on successful integration. Successful integration is broadly associated with entry into the labour market. Therefore, integration is measured through employment. Attempts to increase migrant involvement in the labour market are often made by street-level organisations, where interactions between individuals from the private and/or public sector interact with the migrants. At this microlevel, seemingly innocuous administrative decisions made by individuals working to increase migrant labour integration are often overlooked, yet, as this study shows, have a significant impact on the perceived success of such projects. Using non-participant observation, chronological ordering and framework analysis, this paper investigates the dynamics of trust as a critical, yet underplayed dimension of the immigrant integration process within a Swedish street-level organisation. The findings reveal instances of immigrant commodification, exploitation of the project format and lack of cultural awareness, which can disrupt the delicate psychosocial relations at play, without ever being appreciated in official reports. Moreover, the impact of trust further impacts on the micro-geographies of immigrants and the integration process. We conclude that whilst the results of integration efforts should be evaluated at the macro level, the fundamentals of integration are set and often decided upon already at the street level.
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- Onyango, George Mark, et al.
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Co-production of urban knowledge: Context approach for effective and efficient governance of cities
- 2021
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Ingår i: Acta Scientiarum Polonorum Administratio Locorum. - : Uniwersytet Warminsko-Mazurski. - 1644-0749 .- 2450-0771. ; 20:1, s. 19-33
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Effective and efficient governance is driven by policies that prevail in urban contexts. Policies are usually the result of knowledge co-production, but the efficacy of the process of translating knowledge into policy is still not well defined in the Kenyan context. One example of this is the city of Kisumu, which has been the focus of knowledge co-production by researchers from Kisumu and Gothenburg, and when there is active involvement of academics, policymakers and the private sector. The creation of networks and platforms has been instrumental in knowledge production and has allowed for multi-level co-production facilitating the governance of the city at different spatial and administrative levels. Understanding of the different contexts that have been key in the knowledge production, in turn, is important for the process of determining how these have been the drivers of urban knowledge for governance in Kisumu.
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