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The majority of refugees live in cities. This panel will explore the role of cities and urban neighborhoods in becoming immigrant- and refugee-friendly spaces that take full advantage of the benefits brought by refugees while finding ways to manage the inevitable challenges of immigrant integration.
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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Dr Nicholas Maple is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His current work looks at urban displacement and mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa. His PhD research focused on southern Africa, looking at the relationship between refugee camps/settlements and urban displacement of refugees. He is also the Academic Support Officer for the MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies at the University of London. In addition, he is the module convener of the core module RPM020 ‘An introduction to refugee and forced migration studies’ and supervises MA dissertations at the University of London and University of the Witwatersrand. Â
Hervé Nicolle is the Co-Director and Co-Founder of Samuel Hall. Since 2009, he has led the economic unit at Samuel Hall focusing both on micro-economic research centered on livelihoods and employment in urban and rural settings, with a focus on men, women and youth; and on macro-economic research feeding into National Labor Policies and National Labor Migration Policies, for a variety of actors in Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, India, Tajikistan), and since 2013 in East Africa (Yemen, Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda). Prior to founding Samuel Hall, Hervé worked as a socio-economic advisor in the strategy unit of the European energy utility company GDF-Suez, and prior to that as the speechwriter to the Chairman and CEO. Hervé is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Philosophy in Sorbonne, Paris. He holds an MBA from Cornell University, and three Masters degrees in Economics, Literature, and Philosophy from the Sorbonne. Hervé is a graduate of the French Ecole Normale Supérieure. He teaches philosophy and economics to university students in France, and at the Alliance Française in Nairobi.
 Ahmet İçduygu is the former Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. He currently holds a dual appointment as a full professor at Koç, one is in the Department of International Relations and the other is in the Department of Sociology. He is also the Director of the Migration Research Center at Koc (MiReKoc). He holds a PhD in Demography from the Australian National University. He held visiting professor or fellow positions at Stockholm University, the University of Warwick, the University of Manchester, the European University Institute in Florence, the University of Pennsylvania, Malmö University, and the University of Amsterdam. He is an elected member of the Science Academy in Turkey. In addition to his own individual research projects, Prof. İçduygu has conducted various research projects for the international organizations such as IOM, UNHCR, EU, OECD and ILO. He teaches on migration studies, theories and practices of citizenship, international organizations, civil society, nationalism and ethnicity, and research methods. In addition to his numerous articles in scholarly journals, such as Ethnic and Racial Studies, Citizenship Studies, European Review, International Migration, International Labor and Working Class History, Population, Space and Place, and British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, his most recent books include: Migration and Transformation: Multi-Level Analysis of Migrant Transnationalism, co-edited with P. Pitkänen and D. Sert (Springer, 2011), Countries of Migrants, Cities of Migrants – Italy, Spain, Turkey, co-edited with M. Balbo and J.P. Serrano (ISI Press, 2013), and Critical Reflections in Migration Research: Views from the South and the East, co-edited with Ayşem Biriz Karaçay (Koç University Press, 2014).
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? Â
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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