Urban Migrant Inclusion and Refugee Protection - Volume 2: Global Perspectives of Sanctuary, Solidarity, and Hospitality (IMISCOE Research Series, Band 2) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 3031951506 ISBN 13: 9783031951503

Verlag: Springer, 2025

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This open access book offers the first comprehensive global overview of urban and local initiatives, policies, and practices towards including and protecting migrants in vulnerable situations and refugees. The chapters in this volume illustrate the various urban solidarity practices in different world regions, while highlighting important differences arising from geographical, political, geopolitical, economic and demographic contexts. The volume contains a mix of chapters that present comprehensive and state-of-the-art literature reviews and the results of empirical case studies that offer original regional perspectives of migrant and refugee inclusion and exclusion, and the policies, politics and rights of urban solidarity.

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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 inMigration 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 Universities 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.

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This open access book offers the first comprehensive global overview of urban and local initiatives, policies, and practices towards including and protecting migrants in vulnerable situations and refugees. The chapters in this volume illustrate the various urban solidarity practices in different world regions, while highlighting important differences arising from geographical, political, geopolitical, economic and demographic contexts. The volume contains a mix of chapters that present comprehensive and state-of-the-art literature reviews and the results of empirical case studies that offer original regional perspectives of migrant and refugee inclusion and exclusion, and the policies, politics and rights of urban solidarity.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3031951506
• ISBN 13: 9783031951503
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 268
• Herausgeber: Bauder Harald, Setrana Mary Boatemaa
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