This open access book, the first of two volumes, offers novel insights into the resilience of migrants and refugees and challenges Eurocentric and colonial perspectives of urban solidarity, sanctuary, and hospitality. It is theoretically framed by critical perspectives on the state and anti-colonialism, histories of urban solidarity, practices of solidarity and estrangement, and geographical perspectives of scale and space. The volume also advances novel themes and new approaches towards urban solidarity, sanctuary, hospitality and alternative conceptualizations that open avenues for future research and policy agendas.
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 in Migration 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 University 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.
