Displacement, Asylum and the City - Understanding Migration Processes Through Urban Studies Approaches

This edited volume draws attention to the interlinked yet understudied relationship between the role of cities in dealing with international displacement and forced migration as well as the influence of forced migration in stimulating spatial, societal, and institutional transformations in and of cities.

List of contents

Introduction- Displacement, asylum and the city: understanding migration processes through urban studies approaches 1. Refugee urbanism: seeing asylum "like a city" 2. Towards a parallel exceptional welfare system: the scaling down and out of forced migrants' reception in Italy 3. Making urban humanitarian policy: the "neighbourhood approach" in Lebanon 4. Refugees and the transforming landscapes of small cities in the US 5. Negotiating urban solidarities: multiple agencies and contested meanings in the making of solidarity cities

About the author

René Kreichauf is Postdoc Researcher at Cosmopolis-Centre for Urban Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He did his PhD at Cosmopolis and in association with the Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His research focuses on international and urban displacement, migrant detention and refugee camps, state violence, racial capitalism, urban transformation, and marginalization processes.
Birgit Glorius is Professor of Human Geography with focus on European Migration Research at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. In her research, she focuses on recent migration phenomena in Europe, notably forced migration, and their effects on social cohesion and society formation.

Summary

This edited volume draws attention to the interlinked yet understudied relationship between the role of cities in dealing with international displacement and forced migration as well as the influence of forced migration in stimulating spatial, societal, and institutional transformations in and of cities.

Product details

• Authors: Rene (Vrije Universiteit Brussel Kreichauf
• Assisted by: Birgit Glorius (Editor), Glorius Birgit (Editor), René Kreichauf (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.05.2023
• EAN: 9781032463537
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3246353-7
• No. of pages: 138
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Constitutional, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Urban & municipal planning, Human Geography, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, Asylum Law