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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Nation and Migration -- Contradictions -- Rethinking Human Migration -- Critical Practice -- Outline of the Book -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Sovereignty -- Chapter 1: Migration Controls in the Westphalian Era -- The Westphalian Treaties -- The Westphalian Model in an Age of Migration -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: The Enactment of Sovereignty in the USA -- Introduction -- The Case of the USA -- History of Migration and Sovereignty -- Exclusion as a Legal Norm -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Solidarity -- Chapter 3: Solidarity in the Migration and Refugee Literature -- Types of Solidarity -- Solidarity as Loyalty -- Indigenous Solidarity -- Self-Centred Solidarity -- Emotional Reflexive Solidarity -- Rational Reflexive Solidarity -- Recognitive Solidarity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Migrant Solidarities and the Politics of Place -- Solidarity and Social Transformation -- Space, Place, Migration -- Land and Belonging -- Local Migrant Solidarities -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Part III: Rethinking Migration and Belonging -- Chapter 5: Urban Migrant and Refugee Solidarity -- Defining of Urban Solidarity -- Legality -- Discourse -- Identity -- Scale -- Urban Solidarity around the World -- The Anglo-American Realm -- Continental Europe -- Latin America -- Africa -- Asia -- Australia and New Zealand -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Solidarities within and beyond City Limits -- Introduction -- Types of Urban Solidarity -- Solidarity Ping-Pong -- What's in a Name … -- Berlin: A Solidarity City for All -- Zurich: Migrant and Refugee Inclusion through Urban Citizenship.

"When migrants reach their new home, we often interpret their settlement and integration as an individual process driven largely by the labour market. But family plays a crucial role. Putting Family First is the fruit of a four-year academic–community partnership to investigate the experience of immigrant families settling in Greater Toronto. Contributors explore the integration trajectory of immigrant families, from newcomers' initial reception to their deep involvement in and attachment to their receiving society. Chapters examine the interrelated themes of the policy environment, children and youth, gender, labour markets and work, and community supports, making insightful connections between concepts such as neoliberalism, resilience, and social capital. Putting Family First applies rigorous academic research to solve practical problems, illustrating how the family context can be mobilized to facilitate the successful integration of newcomers and offering important guidance to practitioners and policy-makers in Canada and beyond."--

International borders have become deadly barriers of a proportion rivaled only by war or natural disaster. Yet despite the damage created by borders, most people can't – or don't want to – imagine a world without them. What alternatives do we have to prevent the deadly results of contemporary borders? In today's world, national citizenship determines a person's ability to migrate across borders. Migration Borders Freedom questions that premise. Recognizing the magnitude of deaths occurring at contemporary borders worldwide, the book problematizes the concept of the border and develops arguments for open borders and a world without borders. It explores alternative possibilities, ranging from the practical to the utopian, that link migration with ideas of community, citizenship, and belonging. The author calls into question the conventional political imagination that assumes migration and citizenship to be responsibilities of nation states, rather than cities. While the book draws on the theoretical work of thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, David Harvey, and Henry Lefebvre, it also presents international empirical examples of policies and practices on migration and claims of belonging. In this way, the book equips the reader with the practical and conceptual tools for political action, activist practice, and scholarly engagement to achieve greater justice for people who are on the move.

Front Cover -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Copyright Acknowledgements -- Back Cover.

"Urbanität" ist ein epistemologischer Begriff, der keine zugrunde liegende Essenz besitzt. Aus geographischer Perspektive interpretiere ich diesen Begriff – grob anlehnend an Henry Lefebvres Arbeit zu Raum (Lefebvre 1991) – in verschiedener Weise. "Urban" kann einen administrativen Raum beschreiben, der durch die territorialen Grenzen einer Stadtverwaltung bestimmt ist. Zum Beispiel definieren Stadtverwaltungen in New York, Berlin oder Toronto ihre Bevölkerung durch territoriale administrative Stadtgrenzen. In Kommunen werden zum Beispiel politische Auseinandersetzungen geführt, um Stadtbewohner_innen, denen der Nationalstaat Aufenthaltspapiere verweigert, als gleichberechtigte Bürger zu behandeln, die ein Recht auf kommunale Dienstleistungen besitzen. Auch andere soziale und politische Kämpfe, etwa um das Recht auf erschwinglichen Wohnraum werden häufig in diesem administrativen Raum ausgetragen.

From Sovereignty to Solidarity seeks to re-imagine human mobility in ways that are de-linked from national sovereignty. Using examples from around the world, the author examines contemporary practices of solidarity to illustrate what such a conceptualization of human mobility looks like. He suggests that urban and local scales, rather than the national scale, is a better way to frame human migration and belonging. The book ultimately proposes that solidarity, rather than sovereignty, offers an alternative approach to imagine how human mobility should, and already does, occur. This book will be relevant to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in disciplines such as Migration Studies, Urban Studies, Human and Political Geography, and Refugee Studies. It is also relevant to researchers, development workers and human rights/environmental activists, and other intellectual practitioners.

The concept of solidarity and related policies and practices are central to many urban initiatives throughout the global north that support vulnerable migrants and refugees. In this paper, I unpack various meanings of the concept of solidarity within urban migrant- and refugee-supporting initiatives and campaigns. Drawing on expert interviews with activists, community leaders, and municipal administrators and politicians in Berlin and Freiburg, Germany, and Zurich, Switzerland, I show the complexity and contradictory manner in which urban solidarity is understood and practiced. While urban solidarity may appeal to a wide political spectrum and incorporate top–down policies and bottom–up practices and approaches, urban actors also embrace various terminologies, such as Solidarity City and urban citizenship, in response to local circumstances and political strategies.

AbstractSanctuary cities in the USA, UK, and Canada aim to accommodate illegalized migrants and refugees in their communities. The concept of the "sanctuary city," however, is highly ambiguous: it refers to a variety of different policies and practices, and focuses on variable populations in different national contexts. In this article, I examine the international literature to show how urban sanctuary policies and practices differ between national contexts and assess whether there are common features of sanctuary cities. I uncover legal, discursive, identity‐formative, and scalar aspects of urban sanctuary policies and practices. These aspects assemble in ways that differ between countries. The article concludes by raising important practical and theoretical questions about urban sanctuary.

International borders have become deadly barriers of a proportion rivaled only by war or natural disaster. Yet despite the damage created by borders, most people can't – or don't want to – imagine a world without them. What alternatives do we have to prevent the deadly results of contemporary borders? In today's world, national citizenship determines a person's ability to migrate across borders. Migration Borders Freedom questions that premise. Recognizing the magnitude of deaths occurring at contemporary borders worldwide, the book problematizes the concept of the border and develops arguments for open borders and a world without borders. It explores alternative possibilities, ranging from the practical to the utopian, that link migration with ideas of community, citizenship, and belonging. The author calls into question the conventional political imagination that assumes migration and citizenship to be responsibilities of nation states, rather than cities. While the book draws on the theoretical work of thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, David Harvey, and Henry Lefebvre, it also presents international empirical examples of policies and practices on migration and claims of belonging. In this way, the book equips the reader with the practical and conceptual tools for political action, activist practice, and scholarly engagement to achieve greater justice for people who are on the move.