Paper details
| Paper authors | Robert Larruina |
| In panel on | Humanitarian Aid, European Civil Protection, and Domestic Disaster Management in the European Refugee/Migrant Crisis and Beyond |
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Abstract
Larruina, R., Boersma, F.K., Hoogenboom, L., Ponzoni, E., Rienks, S
In the last decade the effects of the institutionalization of asylum seekers in the Netherlands were addressed in diverse academic and policy papers. They contributed to its acknowledgment by official authorities and boosted a shift in the public and policy discussions on the refugee reception and integration by bringing together governmental and civil society organizations in the debate. However, this dialogue was affected by the increased refugee flow between 2015-2016, the refugee crisis. Research and government reports have shown that the collaboration between civil society and governmental actors during the crisis was crucial for an effective crisis governance. In this paper I draw on to literature about the governance of refugee reception and crisis governance and on a preliminary (exploratory) empirical investigation of the experiences and views of different governmental, non-governmental and community actors, with an active role in Amsterdam between 2015 and 2016. This project has an explorative nature and is based on a qualitative and interpretative research. The experiences of the participants show circumstantial and inter-organizational elements that enhanced or hampered their work during the crisis. I argue that the interactions between governmental and civil society actors before, during and after the so-called Refugee crisis in the Netherlands bring chances to reach durable collaboration in refugee reception and integration.
Robert Larruina MSc. Department of Organization Sciences & Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV. E-mail: r.l.larruina@vu.nl
