The Drivers of Subnational Migration Governance

This chapter brings the analysis conducted in the previous chapters together and draws some conclusions about the drivers of subnational migration governance throughout the ‘asylum crisis’ and the mechanisms that shaped the production of outputs and outcomes. By doing so, it shows the recursive and self-referential nature of subnational migration governance and its constitutive effects, meaning how subnational governance systems themselves contributed to produce key outputs such as efficient or inefficient asylum-seekers’ reception systems, high or low levels of political contestation of asylum and migration-related mobilisations.