Beschreibung:
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.
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