The Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award of the 21st Annual Conference 2024 in Lisbon was awarded to Christine Lang and Elisabeth Badenhoop for their paper on “Civil society organisations and local politics of migration: how funding contexts matter”.
This paper is a fresh and original contribution to research on local-level migration and integration, with a particular focus on the role of Civil Society Organisations as relevant actors. The authors focus on two Western European countries – France and Germany – with different welfare state traditions, relatively large migrant populations and significant experience in post-1945 migration governance. The authors pay attention to the material (financial) factors determining the activities of local CSOs and their policymaking. Their methods and their case selection are thoroughly discussed and justified. An extended comparative discussion and conclusion are included in the final section. The literature used is rich and well-selected, and the research gap is properly defined. This study is an important addition to the migration literature in political sociology and urban studies