Vortrag in Toronto bei der Law and Society Association: Urban Sanctuary at the crossroads

8. Juni 2018, von Internetredaktion

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Am 8. Juni 2018 war Helene Heuser im Rahmen eines kurzen Forschungsaufenthalts in Toronto auf der Jahrestagung der Law & Society Association (LSA) zu Gast. Sie präsentierte ihre "Philosophy of Cities of Refuge" auf dem von Christine Hentschel (Universität Hamburg) geleiteten Panel "Urban Sanctuary at the crossroads – borderwork and urban citizenship in a transatlantic perspective". Weitere Beiträge kamen von  Patricia Landolt (University of Toronto), Harald Bauder, Idil Atak und Graham Hudson (Ryerson University) und Paola Suarez (CISAN, UNAM).

What does the rise of sanctuary cities or solidarity cities in North America and Europe tell us about borderwork and citizenship in practice, as well as ambivalent struggles with and against the law? The panel brings together papers that address the politics and legal geography of urban solidarity in cities such as Hamburg, Toronto, Palermo, or Freiburg to ask how different actors rely on, rethink, stretch the limits of, or undermine the law through urban solidarity practices. Possible questions include: what understandings of solidarity are forged as diverse actors address urban spaces as terrains of struggle, what spatio-temporal tactics are used both by municipalities and activists and which (perhaps unlikely) alliances emerge? How do the practices of naming (solidarity, sanctuary, refuge, asylum) engage different legal repertoires?

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