The current migration/refugee crisis presents opportunities and well as challenges. The overarching aim of the GLIMER project is to generate theoretically informed and empirically grounded knowledge that may, through best practice sharing and reporting, function to support policy-makers and stakeholders to cultivate durable solutions in the governance of local integration of migrants and refugees in Europe. The GLIMER consortium consists of partners from Italy and Cyprus (two landing points for many refugees as they first enter the EU) and UK and Sweden (two countries seen as final destinations), and the cases focus on new arrivals in the areas in and around Consenza, Nicosia, Glasgow and Malmö.
Based in an understanding of the link between governance and integration at the local level, the project will examine emergent systems of co-responsibitliy between local and national agencies in their responses to managing the integration of migrants and refugees. Of central importance here will be the utilizing of what have become known as Urban Living Labs (ULLs) across each of the country cases. GLIMER will develop an approach to ULL as collaborative ventures between citizens, companies, local governments and researchers. In addition, GLIMER will utilize ‘natural’ ULLs that have arisen in the country cases where actors and networks can be brought together as stakeholders. Empirical data will be collected through participant observations, recordings and interviewing.
The core research questions guiding the ULLs consider (i) to what extent cities and local contexts are adopting approaches to the governance of migration and refugees that diverge from national level policy position, (ii) how and in what ways cities and localities are cultivating innovative approaches in the reception and integration of migrants and refugees, and finally (iii) which approaches that are proving successful and how can these be a modelled for other contexts to learn from.
The results are going to be disseminated to a range of audiences through, for instance, roundtables, mobile exhibitions, reports, working papers, conference presentations, books and academic articles.
The GLIMER project is a Joint Programme Initiative (JPI) under the H2020 and was selected for funding by ERA-NET Cofund Smart Urban Futures (ENSUF) (http://jpi-urbaneurope.eu/calls/ensuf-call/). The project consortium consists of five partners: University of Calabria, Malmö University, Mediterranean of Gender Studies in Cyprus, University of Edinburgh and University of Glasgow.
The consortium is led by Nasar Meer, University of Edinburgh, and the Swedish part is led by Erica Righard and funded by FORMAS (The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning).
","en":"The current migration/refugee crisis presents opportunities and well as challenges. The overarching aim of the GLIMER project is to generate theoretically informed and empirically grounded knowledge that may, through best practice sharing and reporting, function to support policy-makers and stakeholders to cultivate durable solutions in the governance of local integration of migrants and refugees in Europe. The GLIMER consortium consists of partners from Italy and Cyprus (two landing points for many refugees as they first enter the EU) and UK and Sweden (two countries seen as final destinations), and the cases focus on new arrivals in the areas in and around Consenza, Nicosia, Glasgow and Malmö.
Based in an understanding of the link between governance and integration at the local level, the project will examine emergent systems of co-responsibitliy between local and national agencies in their responses to managing the integration of migrants and refugees. Of central importance here will be the utilizing of what have become known as Urban Living Labs (ULLs) across each of the country cases. GLIMER will develop an approach to ULL as collaborative ventures between citizens, companies, local governments and researchers. In addition, GLIMER will utilize ‘natural’ ULLs that have arisen in the country cases where actors and networks can be brought together as stakeholders. Empirical data will be collected through participant observations, recordings and interviewing.
The core research questions guiding the ULLs consider (i) to what extent cities and local contexts are adopting approaches to the governance of migration and refugees that diverge from national level policy position, (ii) how and in what ways cities and localities are cultivating innovative approaches in the reception and integration of migrants and refugees, and finally (iii) which approaches that are proving successful and how can these be a modelled for other contexts to learn from.
The results are going to be disseminated to a range of audiences through, for instance, roundtables, mobile exhibitions, reports, working papers, conference presentations, books and academic articles.
The GLIMER project is a Joint Programme Initiative (JPI) under the H2020 and was selected for funding by ERA-NET Cofund Smart Urban Futures (ENSUF) (http://jpi-urbaneurope.eu/calls/ensuf-call/). The project consortium consists of five partners: University of Calabria, Malmö University, Mediterranean of Gender Studies in Cyprus, University of Edinburgh and University of Glasgow.
The consortium is led by Nasar Meer, University of Edinburgh, and the Swedish part is led by Erica Righard and funded by FORMAS (The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning).
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The purpose of GLIMER is to understand how the governance and local integration of migrants and Europe’s refugees is developing, and in ways that can be utilised through best practice sharing and reporting. Inspired by the success of ‘welcoming cities’ in southern Italy, we will work with civil society groups, local authorities, citizens and refugee groups in order to support sustainable the meaningful integration of diverse communities. We will focus on cities in both Southern and Northern Europe and a key aspect of the project will be dedicated to investigating how the local governance of new arrivals can secure successful integration across a range of indicators. This research will be carried out in close collaboration with practitioners with the aim of co-producing knowledge that can be beneficial for a range of stakeholders including civil society groups and NGOs as well as municipalities.","DOI":"10.5281/zenodo.5082085","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-79058","number-of-pages":"121","keyword":"migration; governance; refugees; asylum seekers; migrants; integration","publisher":"European Organization for Nuclear Research","published":[{"raw":"2025-08-27T11:07:14.584+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2025-08-27T11:07:14.652+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-08-27T11:07:14.584+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-79058"},{"id":"diva2:1992370","type":"report","issued":{"date-parts":[[2018]]},"title":"The governance and local Integration of migrants and Europe's refugees : Sweden and Malmö","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Righard","given":"Erica","ORCID":"0000-0002-2296-7672","localId":"hserri","affiliation":[{"id":"882915","name":"Malmö universitet Malmö högskola, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA)"}]},{"family":"Öberg","given":"Klara","ORCID":"0000-0001-6923-5631","localId":"ai3285","affiliation":[{"id":"882915","name":"Malmö universitet Malmö högskola, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA)"}]}],"abstract":"In a historical perspective, Sweden has transformed from being a country of emigration to one of immigration. Top emigration rates were reached in the 1880s. Immigration has exceeded emigration since 1931, but it didn’t really take off until after the Second World War (Nilsson 2004). The proportion of foreign born residents in Sweden in 1930 was less than one per cent; in 2016 it reached almost 18 per cent. Over this period of time, the approaches to asylum and integration have shifted. In the early post-war period, in particularly from the early 1950s to the late 1960s, the national borders were ‘open’ and most immigration was categorised as labour immigration. It was dominated by immigration from European countries. After this, from the early 1970s and until the late 2000s, labour immigration was very limited. The 1980s is usually described as the decade when immigration to Sweden shifted to non-European and refugee immigration. This is also the decade when the Swedish government reformed the system for the integration of refugees. In Sweden, on both policy and operational levels, there is a distinct separation between the reception of asylum seekers and the integration of refugees and their families. While the reception of asylum seekers has always been the responsibility of the state, between 1985 and 2010 the reception of refugees was transferred from state to local authorities. The Swedish welfare model, as it developed after the Second World War, has meant that civil society organisations have played a marginal role in the reception and integration of asylum seekers and refugees. As the model have transformed, in particularly since the 1990s, the role of civil society organisations has changed. Below, we describe the shifting approaches to asylum and integration divided into three periods.","DOI":"10.5281/zenodo.5082120","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-79059","number-of-pages":"28","keyword":"migration; governance; refugees; asylum seekers; migrants; integration","publisher":"European Organization for Nuclear Research","published":[{"raw":"2025-08-27T11:01:01.679+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2025-08-27T11:01:01.749+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-08-27T11:01:01.679+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-79059"}],"links":[{"type":"pid","link":"https://mau.diva-portal.org/smash/api/project/swecris/project:2494"}]}]