Migrant Protection and the City in the Americas

This book aims to establish a dialogue around the various urban sanctuary policies and other formal or informal practices of hospitality toward migrants that have emerged or been strengthened in cities in the Americas in the last decade. The authors articulate local governance initiatives in migrant protection with a larger range of social and political actors and places them within a broader context of migrations in the Western Hemisphere (including case studies of Toronto, New York, Austin, Mexico City, and Lima, among others). The book analyzes in particular the limits of local efforts to protect migrants and to identify the latitude of action at the disposal of local actors. It examines the efforts of municipal governments and also considers the role taken by cities from a larger perspective, including the actions of immigrant rights associations, churches, NGOs, and other actors in protecting vulnerable migrants.

Offers a critical reevaluation of urban sanctuary policies, embedded in their various national contexts, and investigates the tensions that complicate their efforts Examines the extent to which organizations manage to influence local authorities in both the definition and implementation of local migration policies Addresses the effects of territorial boundaries and overlapping scales of intervention in metropolitan and regional contexts

Autorentext

Laurent Faret is Professor of Geography at the University of Paris Diderot, France, and Researcher at the Center for Social Studies of Africa, the Americas, and Asia (CESSMA).

Hilary Sanders is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France.

Klappentext

This book aims to establish a dialogue around the various urban sanctuary policies and other formal or informal practices of hospitality toward migrants that have emerged or been strengthened in cities in the Americas in the last decade. The authors articulate local governance initiatives in migrant protection with a larger range of social and political actors and places them within a broader context of migrations in the Western Hemisphere (including case studies of Toronto, New York, Austin, Mexico City, and Lima, among others). The book analyzes in particular the limits of local efforts to protect migrants and to identify the latitude of action at the disposal of local actors. It examines the efforts of municipal governments and also considers the role taken by cities from a larger perspective, including the actions of immigrant rights associations, churches, NGOs, and other actors in protecting vulnerable migrants.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. Protecting migrants in practice : tensions and limits in North America.- Chapter 2. Tucson, Arizona, from the Central American sanctuary movement to the contemporary immigrants' rights movement.- Chapter 3. Reacting to the sanctuary city crackdown: the limits of migrant protection in (post-2016) New York City.- Chapter 4. Austin, TX : The Intersection between the #19TooMany movement and overlapping layers of governance in a self-named Welcoming City.- Chapter 5. Sanctuary, Surveillance, and the City: The Case of Toronto, Canada.- Chapter 6. A Responsible and Committed City: Montreal's Sanctuary Policy.- Part II. Nascent protective policies in Latin America.- Chapter 7. Sello Migrante or restrictive hospitality: The case of Quilicura in Santiago, Chile.- Chapter 8. Has Mexico City truly become a Ciudad hospitalaria? Insights from the Central American migration experience in the metropolitan context.- Chapter 9. Welcome or Expel? Migratory Dilemmas in Tijuana.- Chapter 10. Urban Fragility and integration policies of immigrant communities in San José, Costa Rica.- Chapter 11. Lima as a welcoming city for the Venezuelan migrant population : problems and challenges.- Chapter 12. Conclusion.