ABSTRACT

The article addresses the topic of cities’ trajectories of participation in Transnational City Networks on migration-related issues to identify factors and mechanisms of mobilisation. We present the results of a qualitative study on Turin (Italy) and Saint-Etienne (France). Both cities started to mobilise internationally in the 1990s on the initiative of entrepreneurial mayors, yet throughout the 2000s took opposite paths: in Turin, intense participation until 2014 was followed by partial dis-involvement and renewed activism since 2018; Saint-Etienne started to distance itself in 2008 and has not actively participated since then. We show how in the case of Turin, internationalisation has been driven by networks’ professionals engaging their personal relations in boundary-spanning work, establishing connections between public and non-public actors and between the local and international spheres. Such dynamics are absent in the case of Saint-Etienne, where mobilisation on migration has always been mayors-centred.

摘要

这篇文章讨论了城市在移民相关问题上参与跨国城市网络的轨迹，以确定动员的因素和机制。我们展示了对都灵（意大利）和圣艾蒂安（法国）的定性研究结果。两个城市在 1990 年代在企业家市长的倡议下开始国际动员起来，但在整个 2000 年代采取了相反的路径：在都灵，直到 2014 年的强烈参与之后，自 2018 年以来部分退出并重新开始行动；圣埃蒂安从2008年开始疏远，此后一直没有积极参与。我们展示了在都灵的案例中，国际化是如何由网络专业人士将他们的个人关系用于跨越边界的工作所驱动的，在公共和非公共行为者之间以及地方和国际领域之间建立联系。在圣艾蒂安的案例中没有这种动力，那里的移民动员一直以市长为中心。