On March 1st - 2nd 2023 the Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative held a two-day symposium presenting new research at the intersection of cities, citizenship, migration, and displacement. The symposium brought together scholars and practitioners from around the globe with the objective to advance knowledge that contributes to a greater understanding of the role of cities in accommodating human mobility.
Understanding contemporary migration and displacement, the impact of mobility processes on cities, and the role of cities as transient and permanent spaces of migrant city-making require insights into different disciplines, methods, and data. Through a diverse program that covers a wide array of topics, the symposium presented interdisciplinary research that promotes integrated approaches to conceptual and evidence-based research and policy analysis on cities and migration.
DAY 1: Wednesday, March 1st, 2023
09:00 - 09:20 Welcoming Coffee and Breakfast Snacks
09:20 - 09:30 Opening Remarks | Ayşe Çağlar. Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vienna University, Permanent Fellow at IWM.
09:30 - 10:00 Keynote Address
Colleen Thouez | Senior Fellow Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility.
10:00 - 11:20 Panel 1: Migration Governance and the City
Mukta Naik (online) | Urban Governance of Migration at the Periphery of Policy Imagination: Evidence from Indian Cities during the Pandemic. Research Fellow at Center for Policy Research, New Delhi, India
Diana Zacca Thomaz | Envisioning an eviction-free city Postdoctoral Fellow with the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School for Social Research.
Jan Rath | Commercial gentrification of migrant neighborhoods Professor of Urban Sociology, the University of Amsterdam
Hervé Nicole (online) | Youth, Migration and Development: A New Lens for Critical Times
Co-Director Samuel Hall
Moderated by Achilles Kallergis | Assistant Professor New School for Social Research, Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility
11:20 - 12:40 Panel 2: Cities in Global Networks and Partnerships
Janina Stuerner Siovitz | Curtain up: City Diplomacy in Global Migration Governance. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science and the Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Morthorst Lasse | Equal Partnerships - African Intermediary Cities as Actors and Partners in Urban Migration Governance. Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science and the Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Ayla Bonfiglio | Head of Mixed Migration Centre (MMC) Eastern & Southern Africa. Yemen & Egypt at the Danish Refugee Council.
Moderated by Colleen Thouez | Senion Fellow Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility.
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:20 pm Panel 3: African Cities, Migration and Environental Change
Sarah Rosengaertner | Supporting the Agency of Cities as Climate Migration Destinations. Knowledge & Practice Global Centre for Climate Mobility.
Achilles Kallergis | Contradictions in the Governance of Environmenat Mobility: Evidence from African Coastal Cities. Assistant Professor New School for Social Research, Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility.
Karen Jacobsen (online) | Mapping Climate Hazards in Inland African Cities. Leir Chair in Global Migration, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University; Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University.
Moderated by Janina Stuerner Siovitz | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science and the Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
15:20 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:30 Roundtable Discussion - Solidifying the Collaborative’s Growth and Mission: Linking Research to Practice
Roundtable Discussion moderated by Achilles Kallergis | Assistant Professor New School for Social Research, Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility.
19:00 - 21:30 Welcome Dinner
DAY 2 Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
9:30 - 10:00 Coffee and Breakfast Snacks
10:00 - 11:20 Panel 4: Digital Citizenship
Wessel Reijers | Civic Virtue and Emerging Technologies. Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna.
Filippo Bigmani & Naomi Clara Hanakata| (online) | When Platforms Meets Citizens: Patterns of Platform Urbanization in Singapore. Senior researcher and lecturer, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Lugano; Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
Moderated by Liav Orgad (online) | WZB Berlin Social Science Center, European University Institute (EUI), Associate Professor at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya.
11:20 - 12:40 Panel 5: Displacement and Cities in the Global South
Lucy Earle | Protracted Displacement in an Urban World. Principal researcher, Human Settlements, IIED.
Alison Brown | Urban Displacement Economies
Professor of Urban Planning and International Development in the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University
Ahmet Icduygu & Souad Osseiran | Politicized Collective Identities, Politicized Neighbourhoods: How the Turkish State Problematise Refugee Settlements in Cities – Evidence from Istanbul. Professor at Koç University, Director of the Migration Research Center at Koc (MiReKoc), Istanbul Turkey, Postdoctoral fellow Migration Research Center at Koc University, Istanbul Turkey
Moderated by Achilles Kallergis | Assistant Professor New School for Social Research, Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30 Panel 6: City politics of reception: European cities responding to the Ukrainian displacement
Luiza Bialasiewicz | The Urban Geopolitics of Reception. Professor of European Governance, University of Amsterdam.
Anna Lazareva (University of Vienna), Volha Biziukova (Central European University), and Ruslana Koziienko (Central European University) | “Arrival” Infrastructures of the Displaced from Ukraine in Vienna.
Katja Lindner | The Role of Cities in Health Care for Asylum Seekers in Germany. MIDEM / TU Dresden.
Kristina Chmelar | Czech Republic and Ukrainian Refugees: the Case of Prague. MIDEM / TU Dresden.
Marta Kozłowska | Receiving and Integrating War Refugees Without Central Migration and Integration Policies: The Case of Ukrainians in Polish Cities and Municipalities. MIDEM / TU Dresden.
Moderated by Ayşe Çağlar | Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vienna University, Permanent Fellow at IWM.
15:30 - 16:50 Panel 7: New Narratives and Migrant Self- Representation
Gianluca Gatta | Memory Practices of the Afghan and Somali Diasporas in US and Italy. Postdoctoral fellow, Milano University.
Zakaria Mohamed Ali & Irene Aurora Paci | Ithaca: Histories and Archives for Migrant Agency. Archivio del Memorie Migranti.
Paule Roberta Yao | DIMMI Project - Multimedia Diaries by Migrants. Archivio del Memorie Migranti.
Moderated by Gianluca Gatta | Postdoctoral fellow, Milano University.
16:40 - 17:30 Closing Roundtable
17:30 Closing reception
