Law
Faculty of Law
Law and Society Association 2018 in Toronto
8 June 2018, by Internetredaktion
Photo: Law and Society Association
Helene Heuser presented at the annual conference of the Law & Society Association (LSA) her work on a "Philosophy of Cities of Refuge". She was invited by Christine Hentschel (Universität Hamburg) at her Panel "Urban Sanctuary at the crossroads – borderwork and urban citizenship in a transatlantic perspective". At the panel Patricia Landolt (University of Toronto), Harald Bauder, Idil Atak und Graham Hudson (Ryerson University) and Paola Suarez (CISAN, UNAM) have also given an input.
Urban Sanctuary at the crossroads – borderwork and urban citizenship in a transatlantic perspective: 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?
