Comparative report on the multilevel governance of the national asylum reception systems

Mapping and analysing the stakes, goals, resources and strategies of the actors involved at different levels (national, regional, local), the role they played in the decisionmaking process beyond their formal tasks and their mutual relations, and the contextual factors which affect the reception systems. In the case of Italy and Greece, hotspots will also be considered. As for the local level, in each country, 2 different localities with a high level of heterogeneity (in terms of population size, ruling parties, size of the third sector, similar share of asylum seekers or refugees, etc.) have to be considered. Each partner involved will undertake 20-25 qualitative in-depth interviews with key informants, in particular policymakers, high-ranking public officials, leaders of non-profit organisations, representatives of immigrant/refugee associations if relevant. Case studies: Germany, Italy, Greece, Spain, Bulgaria, Luxembourg and Finland