The project, funded by the Urban Communication Foundation and co-funded by Compagnia di San Paolo, aims at investigating the mechanisms producing the positive association between policy communities’ cohesion and local migration and integration narratives. The fieldwork focuses on two case studies, defined by specific events: the squatting, from 2013, of two empty buildings in the so-called ‘ex-MOI’ (Mercati Ortofrutticoli all’Ingrosso) area in Turin by refugees at the end of their reception path and the growing numbers of asylum-seekers in transit to other European countries in Milan Central Station in the summer of 2015. Both these case studies show dynamics that are already affecting an ever growing number of European cities. Following an increase of flows and the rejection of a significant number of asylum applications, such events could multiply in the future. The project has the ambition to contribute both to enhance scientific knowledge in this regard and to offer more detailed and practical recommendations to policy communities on how to reinforce their narrative autonomy and power.