30 January 2020
Does Urban Citizenship Promote Inclusion for the Poor, Sick, and Outcast?
The assumption is that nation-states often undervalue potential immigrants and that cities would better value their potential contributions. Because citizenship involves not only inclusion but also exclusion, however, there are dangers to proposals such as Bauböck’s that “cities should determine who their citizens are independently of how states do this.” Continue reading >>
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23 January 2020
Urban Citizenship: A Path to Migrant Inclusion
Earlier commentaries in this online symposium highlighted various aspects of urban citizenship, such as the exclusion of non-urban populations (Lenard) or the conundrum of multilevel frames of legal authority (van Zeben). Harald Bauder suggests that urban citizenship can be an important mechanism to create inclusive communities. Continue reading >>
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