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This open access book, the first of two volumes, offers novel insights into the resilience of migrants and refugees and challenges Eurocentric and colonial perspectives of urban solidarity, sanctuary, and hospitality. It is theoretically framed by critical perspectives on the state and anti-colonialism, histories of urban solidarity, practices of solidarity and estrangement, and geographical perspectives of scale and space. The volume also advances novel themes and new approaches towards urban solidarity, sanctuary, hospitality and alternative conceptualizations that open avenues for future research and policy agendas.
List of contents
Part 1. Regional & Cross-Border Perspectives.- 1. Solidarity and Mobilities in Cities of the Latin American Southern Cone: Local Experience in Global Debates (Carolina Stefoni, Aline Bravo & Fernanda Stang).- 2. African Intermediary Cities: Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships for Urban Migration Governance (Janina Stürner-Siovitz and Lasse Juhl Morthorst).- 3. Local Sanctuary Policies and Immigrant Civic and Political Engagement in North America (Els de Graauw, Kira Olsen-Medina, and Annie Wang).- 4. Challenges for Solidarity Cities: Migrant Rights as a Complex Social Field (Mouna Maaroufi & Helge Schwiertz).- 5. Formal and Informal Solidarity Practices in Copenhagen and Accra (Mashudu Salifu & Martin Bak Jørgensen).- Part 2. Between Inclusion and Exclusion.- 6. Impacts of Xenophobia, Lack of Solidarity and Hospitality on African Migrant Entrepreneurs in Yeoville Market, Johannesburg (David O. Monda).- 7. Strangers in the Neoliberal City: Bodily-Emotional Disposition, Urban Ambivalence and Trancontextuality in the Narratives of Venezuelan Migrants in Bogota (Erik Jerena Montiel).- 8. Contested Local Solidarity: Comparing Patterns of Protest in German Towns (Elias Steinhilper & Moriz Sommer).- 9. The Invisible Boundaries of Sanctuary Cities: Local Policies Towards Undocumented Migrants (Benjamin Bruce & Line Crettex).- 10. Access to Early Childhood Services by Precarious Status Families: Negotiating Multiple Borders in a Sanctuary City, Toronto, Canada (Judith K. Bernhard, Julie E.E. Young & Luin Goldring).- Part 3. Rights and Practices of Urban Solidarity.- 11. Migrant and Refugee Solidarity in Urban South Africa (Leah Koskimaki & Perfect Mazani).- 12. Solidarity Practices Among Informal Migrant Networks in Cities of Ghana (Mary B. Setrana, Joseph K. Teye, Thomas Yeboah & Leander Kandilige ).- 13. Pathways Towards Inclusion: A Comparative Analysis of Turkish Municipalities (Seda Rass-Turgut).- 14. Local Response to Urban Refugees and Migrants: The Case of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (Mert Peksen and Erhan Kurtarir ).- 15. Politics of Governance or Governance of Politics? Exploring Migrant Policies in the City of Athens (Sofia Ntaliou).
About the author
Harald Bauder is a professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies and the Graduate Program in Immigration and Settlement at Toronto Metropolitan University in Canada. He is also an Extraordinary Professor with the Institute for Social Development at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. From 2011 to 2015, he served as the founding Academic Director of the Toronto Metropolitan Centre for Immigration and Settlement. Dr Bauder has published widely on the topics of migration policy and debate, urban sanctuary and solidarity, open borders and no border, academic international mobility, migrant labour, sovereignty, and migrant-Indigenous relations. His life-time contribution to comparative migration studies has been recognised by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Royal Society of Canada which jointly conferred him the Konrad Adenauer Award in 2015. Currently, he serves as the Director of the ‘Urban Sanctuary, Migrant Solidarity and Hospitality in Global Perspective’ (Soli*City) Partnership Project.
Mary Boatemaa Setrana is the Director of the Centre for Migration Studies and an associate Professor of migration and social change at the University of Ghana. She is a sociologist by training and holds a PhD in Migration Studies from University of Ghana and Radboud University, the Netherlands. She participates (either as a PI or Co-I) in large research projects funded by SSHRC, EU, IOM, ILO and OECD, Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), Carnegie Corporation for New York (CCNY). Mary has contributed to migration policy development in Ghana and other African countries. She is also an Advisory Board member of the African Research University Alliance (ARUA), Centre of Excellence on Migration & Mobility. Her research interests include migration governance, African mobilities including pastoralism, cross-border trading, etc, gender, migration and development, forced displacement, return migration and reintegration, youth migration and aspirations, transnational migration and diasporas.
Summary
This open access book, the first of two volumes, offers novel insights into the resilience of migrants and refugees and challenges Eurocentric and colonial perspectives of urban solidarity, sanctuary, and hospitality. It is theoretically framed by critical perspectives on the state and anti-colonialism, histories of urban solidarity, practices of solidarity and estrangement, and geographical perspectives of scale and space. The volume also advances novel themes and new approaches towards urban solidarity, sanctuary, hospitality and alternative conceptualizations that open avenues for future research and policy agendas.
