Displacement, Asylum and the City

Understanding Migration Processes through Urban Studies Approaches
Herausgeber: Kreichauf, René; Glorius, Birgit

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9781032463537
• ISBN-10: 1032463538
• Artikelnr.: 67399908

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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