1st Edition
Cities, Migration, and Governance Beyond Scales and Levels
Introduction: Cities, migration, and governance: beyond scales and levels
Felicitas Hillmann and Michael Samers
1. The Urban Governance of Asylum as a "Battleground": Policies of Exclusion and Efforts of Inclusion in Italian Towns
Maurizio Ambrosini
2. Relational Multiscalar Analysis: A Comparative Approach to Migrants within City-Making Processes
Ayşe Çağlar and Nina Glick Schiller
3. Diversity Development in Postsocialist Cities: The Example of East Germany
Birgit Glorius
4. Fight for the City: Policing, Sanctuary, and Resistance in Chicago
Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz and Reyna Wences
5. Local Path Dependency and Scale Shift in Social Movements: The Case of the us Immigrant Rights Movement
Walter Nicholls, Davide Gnes and Floris Vermeulen
6. Live, Work, and Stay? Geographies of Immigrant Receptivity in Atlantic Canada’s Aspiring Gateways
Yolande Pottie-Sherman and Nelson Graham
7. Homemaking and Places of Restoration: Belonging Within and Beyond Places Assigned to Syrian Refugees in the Netherlands
Ilse van Liempt and Richard Staring
Biography
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.
