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Challenging the Nation-State from within: The Emergence of Transmunicipal Solidarity in the Course of the EU Refugee Controversy

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  • Christiane Heimann

    (Migration Policy Research Group, University of Hildesheim, Germany)

  • Sandra Müller

    (Migration Policy Research Group, University of Hildesheim, Germany)

  • Hannes Schammann

    (Migration Policy Research Group, University of Hildesheim, Germany)

  • Janina Stürner

    (Centre for Area Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)

Abstract

In the context of the so-called refugee crisis, political disputes about solidarity become a central issue with member states applying competing concepts. At the same time, European cities use transnational networks to implement a new form of solidarity among municipalities via city diplomacy (Acuto, Morissette, & Tsouros, 2017). Analyzing the deadlock between member states and the emerging activities of cities, we scrutinize the limits of existing approaches to political solidarity (e.g., Agustín & Jørgensen, 2019; Knodt, Tews, & Piefer, 2014; Sangiovanni, 2013) to explain this phenomenon. Based on expert interviews and document analysis from a study on transnational municipal networks, we identify an emerging concept of solidarity that challenges the nation states as core providers of solidarity from within: transmunicipal solidarity focuses on joint action of local governments to scale out and scale up.

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  • Christiane Heimann & Sandra Müller & Hannes Schammann & Janina Stürner, 2019. "Challenging the Nation-State from within: The Emergence of Transmunicipal Solidarity in the Course of the EU Refugee Controversy," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 7(2), pages 208-218.
    • Handle: RePEc:cog:socinc:v7:y:2019:i:2:p:208-218
    DOI: 10.17645/si.v7i2.1994
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