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Welcome to the first newsletter from GLIMER!

It’s been a very busy start to our project studying local responses to displaced migrants and refugees, and this newsletter gives you some sense of the work we have been doing.  

While GLIMER (the Governance and Local Integration of Europe’s Refugees) is now deep in field work in a number of localities in Italy, Cyprus, Sweden and Scotland, we have also been thinking about the national and regional contexts in which this work rests.

Read our opening blog on ‘Local States of Exception’ about why migration policies fail and how localities are working to mitigate these failures. With the pre-electoral debate in full swing in Sweden, see our blog on how issues of integration and migration are becoming the fulcrum of Swedish politics.

Meanwhile, and with distorted media debates on-going, what are the possible routes to better media inclusion and representation? Read our working paper on how new media may prove vital for this.

Moreover you can find all of our project documents ready to download here. Each traces contemporary developments in the incorporation of migrant and displaced communities, and asks what we can learn from this going forward.

Finally, do please keep in touch if you want to received further updates on project developments. You can follow us on Twitter for regular updates on the work of the project.

Nasar Meer

GLIMER

About GLIMER The GLIMER consortium consists of partners from Italy and Cyprus (two landing points for many refugees as they first enter the EU) and the UK and Sweden (two countries seen as final destinations for recent arrivals), and the cases focus on new arrivals in the areas in and around Cosenza, Nicosia, Glasgow and Malmo respectively.

Blogs In our first blog, Nasar Meer, Emma Hill and Tim Peace ask why do migration policies fail?  With the Swedish general election coming later this year, our Swedish team also ask who can be the most hostile to migration in Sweden?

Outputs Our teams discuss the governance and local integration of migrants and Europe's refugees in their country in the first of our work package reports.  Our Scottish team also discuss media coverage of migration in our first working paper.

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GLIMER received funding in the framework of the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe, with support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 693443.

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