Sanctuary Cities and Urban Struggles: Rescaling Migration, Citizenship, and Rights

Sanctuary Cities and Urban Struggles explores how cities are challenging the nation-state's primacy in guaranteeing rights and entitlements by bringing together scholars from political geography, urban geography, citizenship studies, socio-legal studies, and refugee studies. It proposes a set of interlocking sites and scales of political imagination and practice for reimagining citizenship, rights, and mobility at the urban scale.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 27 June 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press

Sanctuary Cities and Urban Struggles is a groundbreaking exploration of how cities are challenging the primacy of the nation-state as the key guarantor of rights and entitlements. This comprehensive book brings together a diverse range of cutting-edge scholars from political geography, urban geography, citizenship studies, socio-legal studies, and refugee studies to delve into the intricate ways in which urban social movements, localized practices of belonging, and diverse articulations of sanctuary are reshaping the governance of migration. By offering a rich collection of empirical cases and conceptualizations that transcend traditional state-centric perspectives, Sanctuary Cities and Urban Struggles proposes not a singular alternative but rather a constellation of interlocking sites and scales of political imagination and practice. In a time when migrant rights are under threat and nationalism is on the rise, the topic of how citizenship, rights, and mobility can be recast at the urban scale has become increasingly pertinent. This book provides valuable insights and frameworks for policymakers, activists, and scholars alike to address the complex challenges and opportunities that arise in the context of urban migration.

Weight: 478g
Dimension: 219 x 154 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526134912