”We Stretched the Rules”: How Street-Level Bureaucrats in Schools Shape Newcomers’ Access to Resources

ILS researcher Cornelia Tippel, together with Heike Hanhörster from TU Berlin, has published an article in the “Urban Planning” journal. Based on Lipsky’s (1980/2010) concept of “street-level bureaucracy”, this article analyzes the everyday work and practices of school staff to gain a better understanding of their formal and informal role in migration governance and newcomers’ access to resources. Thereby, the article highlights street-level bureaucrats’ embeddedness, in particular in local networks of social infrastructures. https://doi.org/10.17645/up.8570. Further current selected papers can be found here.