Research on the governance of refugees has until recently remained conceptualized with the national perspective as a starting point. This article compares asylum governance at the local level between Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, focusing on the often sensitive and highly debated issue of reception and accommodation. The central idea is to determine convergences and divergences of local reception structures and efforts, and how they are linked to the governance levels situated above them. Despite municipalities having been greatly affected by, and having shaped in practice, reception and integration processes of asylum seekers and refugees, so far there has been little in terms of comparative research across countries in Europe. Our findings emerging from the comparison suggest that top-down implementations of asylum reception have created numerous problems and protest on the ground, especially when the local population and local stakeholders were not involved in the decision-making process. On the one hand, the case studies show that within each national setting, the local regimes and agencies can shape divergent reception outcomes in terms of integrative or disintegrative policies. On the other hand, converging developments in the local cases across national contexts, such as the impact of the local political climate, suggest the crucial impact of local reception regimes and agencies, notwithstanding varying regulatory frameworks and procedures. We thus underline the importance of local-to-local comparison, and not only national-to-national, when it comes to analysing refugee reception.

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欧洲共同庇护系统内的难民接收：通过地方与地方的比较来观察趋同和分歧

直到最近，关于难民治理的研究仍然以国家视角为起点进行概念化。本文比较了德国、卢森堡和荷兰在地方层面的庇护治理，重点关注经常敏感且备受争议的接待和住宿问题。中心思想是确定当地接待结构和努力的趋同和分歧，以及它们如何与位于其上的治理层级联系起来。尽管市政当局受到寻求庇护者和难民的接收和融合过程的极大影响并在实践中形成了影响，但迄今为止，欧洲各国之间的比较研究很少。我们从比较中得出的发现表明，自上而下的庇护接收实施在当地造成了许多问题和抗议，尤其是当当地居民和当地利益相关者没有参与决策过程时。一方面，案例研究表明，在每个国家环境中，地方政权和机构可以在整合或分解政策方面形成不同的接收结果。另一方面，尽管监管框架和程序各不相同，但不同国家背景下地方案件的发展趋同，例如地方政治气候的影响，表明地方接待制度和机构的重要影响。因此，我们强调地方与地方比较的重要性，不仅是国家与国家之间的比较，