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Migration within and across international borders is a story that plays out in the world’s cities. Urban governance and local processes, formal and informal, through which migration is regulated are increasingly shaping human mobility prospects. Municipal authorities, non-state actors, and civil society, therefore, play active roles in the development of urban migration policies as they relate to broader local economic development, regularization of informal labor, and provision of education, health, housing, and urban services. This panel will focus on the role of urban governance in mobility processes.
This panel is part of the Migration, Displacement and Citizenship in an Urban World virtual conference.
Presented by the Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative, an initiative of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School.
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Loren Landau is Professor of Migration and Development at the Oxford Department of International Development and Associate Professor with the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg where he was the founding director. He has previously held the South African Research Chair on Mobility & the Politics of Difference and visiting or faculty positions at Georgetown, Princeton, and Tufts Universities. He is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa.
His interdisciplinary scholarship explores mobility, multi-scale governance, and the transformation of socio-political communities across the global south. Along with continued work on xenophobia, inclusion, and representation, he currently oversees a multi-year initiative exploring mobility, temporality, and urban politics in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. To help realign the politics of knowledge production on human mobility, he spearheads multiple initiatives supporting critical migration and urban studies across sub-Saharan Africa including the Academy for African Urban Diversity and the African Research University Alliance’s programme on ‘emerging urban subjectivities’ supporting doctoral students in Nairobi, Cape Town, Harare, Accra, and Johannesburg.
Diana Zacca Thomaz is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, and an assistant editor of the journal Citizenship Studies. Her research focuses on the lived experiences of international migrants and citizens inhabiting precarious forms of housing in cities. She is interested in how these two groups are often constructed as an urban “problem,” and how they respond to their disenfranchisement and make claims to rights. Diana’s first book project, tentatively entitled The Eviction Room: Migration and Urban Citizenship in São Paulo’s Squats, analyzes the shared marginalization and the claims-making of both Brazilians and international migrants living together in squats (ocupações) in central São Paulo, Brazil. This research is an ethnography of the fragile coalition forged between the MSTC (Movimento Sem Teto do Centro, i.e., City Centre’s Roofless Movement) and the migrants living in the movement’s squats.
Ayse Çaglar is a Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna and a Permanent Fellow at IWM. She received her PhD at McGill University, Department of Anthropology and Habilitation in Sociology and Social Anthropology at Free University, Berlin. Before joining the University of Vienna she was a professor at and the chair of the DeÇartment of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University, Budapest and she was a Minerva Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Goettingen. She has held visiting professorships and fellowships in several universities in Europe. She is a member of Academia Europaea and the Science Academy Society of Turkey. She has widely published on processes of migration, urban restructuring, transnationalization and the state, cultural production and policies, multiscalar analysis, and of disposession and displacement. Her most recent comparative empirical research addressed the location of migrants in city-making processes especially in disempowered cities.
More than ever, the city is the locus of human mobility. The majority of the world’s migrants and forcibly displaced live in urban areas. Migration continues to be a fundamental process to the development and growth of cities. The role of cities in shaping mobility and that of migrants in shaping cities have been increasingly recognized in policy, academic, and media circles. Understanding this relationship and its implications for political and policy action requires us to gather new evidence from cities the world over and to possibly challenge past assumptions and theoretical concepts.
Key questions that emerge in this context are: What is the role of urban governance in addressing the challenges and in harnessing the opportunities that come with migration? How do cities negotiate contested views surrounding the topic of migration? How do new forms of mobility and technological advances affect membership and belonging? How do shifting narratives on migration and displacement shape political and media discourse?
This virtual conference is organized by the Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative, a consortium that aims to advance research on cities, mobility, and citizenship. The event will bring together leading scholars from across disciplines with the purpose of sharing recent research on the following themes: (a) Cities, Human Mobility and Digital Citizenship, (b) Cities and Environmental Mobility, (c) Mobility and Urban Governance, (d) Cities, Migration and Contentious Politics, (e) Refugees and Cities, (f) New Narratives on Cities and Mobility.
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