Burden, benefit, gift or duty?: Dutch mayors’ framing of the multilevel governance of asylum in rural localities and cities in Zeeland

This article engages with critiques of multilevel governance (MLG) perspectives on asylum governance andidentifies two additional points of concern. First, it highlights the importance of empirically groundingreflections on the limits of the MLG approach, beyond the activism of city actors, by examining localasylum dynamics from the vantage point of mayors inrural and small urbanmunicipalities. It examineshow Dutch mayors in rural and small urban municipalities in the Dutch province of Zeeland experiencedand framed asylum governance in a multilevel setting between 2015 and 2016. Second, this a... Mehr ...