Affiliation:
1. Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden
2. Westfalische Wilhelms-University, Münster, Germany
Abstract
Abstract
The article examines from a comparative perspective how Sweden and Germany reacted to the unprecedented increase in unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) in 2015. Concretely, it analyses on the basis of Windrum’s taxonomy of public-sector innovation what kinds of generic and context-specific policy instruments have been developed for this particularly vulnerable group and discusses whether and to what extent prevailing welfare-service organizational arrangements have changed in the two countries since 2015. By illustrating the reactions of two countries, the study shows that an unprecedented wave of refugees/asylum seekers can trigger both more incremental, adaptive and drastic transformative policy changes. The policy systems of both countries indicate not only some resilience, but also overburdened government capacity and more drastic changes that led to reduction of the legal rights of UASC.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Political Science and International Relations,Geography, Planning and Development
Cited by
10 articles.
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