Monday 4 March 2024
Voltaire: 9.00-13.00
In recent years the street-level approach to migration policy implementation has been growing in migration studies. Lipsky's work has inspired scholars to study the practices of street-level bureaucrats to understand how migration policies are implemented. This has opened up a field of research focused on the practices of these street-level bureaucrats to understand the legal, organisational and even moral dilemmas they face when making decisions regarding the migrants whose case they are handling. More recently, scholars have adopted this approach to study the practices of non-state actors involved in the overall implementation of migration policies, such as visa-processing companies or intermediary actors, often migrants on the move themselves. These various approaches point at some of the limitations of Lipsky's theory, but also open new perspectives. With this round table, we wish to discuss these perspectives and limits of the street-level approach in an attempt to develop it further and set a tentative research agenda for this timey field of inquiry. Participants are asked to prepare short notices on what they consider perspectives and limits of the street-level approach to policy implementation in migration studies."
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