Cities, Migration, and Governance

This volume examines how cities, migration, and urban governance are intertwined. Questioning and re-working the conceptual reliance on "scales" and "levels", it draws on examples from both Europe and North America to conceptualize the variety of cities as re-active and pro-active within "glocal" and "socio-territorial dynamics".

Autorentext

Felicitas Hillmann, Professor, is currently Head of the FIS-networking unit "Paradigm Shift" (nups) at the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. Her research interests focus on the role of migration for urban transformation and for the restructuring of international labour markets, increasingly so under conditions of multiple crises.

Michael Samers is Professor of Economic and Urban Geography at the University of Kentucky, United States. His research interests include the urban and economic dimensions of migration as well as the political economy of urban change, especially in France and the United States.

Inhalt

Introduction: Cities, migration, and governance: beyond scales and levels 1. The Urban Governance of Asylum as a "Battleground": Policies of Exclusion and Efforts of Inclusion in Italian Towns 2. Relational Multiscalar Analysis: A Comparative Approach to Migrants within City-Making Processes 3. Diversity Development in Postsocialist Cities: The Example of East Germany 4. Fight for the City: Policing, Sanctuary, and Resistance in Chicago 5. Local Path Dependency and Scale Shift in Social Movements: The Case of the us Immigrant Rights Movement 6. Live, Work, and Stay? Geographies of Immigrant Receptivity in Atlantic Canada's Aspiring Gateways 7. Homemaking and Places of Restoration: Belonging Within and Beyond Places Assigned to Syrian Refugees in the Netherlands