Transatlantic Perspectives on Urban Transformation and the Governance of Migration: Introduction to the Special Issue

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Notes

¹ By ‘migrants’ here, we are including not only legal labor and family migrants, but also asylum-seekers, refugees, and ‘illegalized’/undocumented migrants, mostly from poorer countries. However, the so-called ‘second generation’ does not escape our analysis, since we are interested in pro-migrant political mobilization that often crosses legal boundaries and generations.

² We acknowledge the long-standing debates in IR and IPE/GPE on whether such institutions should be considered global, international, or inter-state, but we do not have the space to engage in this debate. In any case, we do not think such institutions are extra-territorial, neither in their constitution nor their effects.

³ Among those are Weltoffene Kommune by the Bertelsmann-Foundation, Engagierte Stadt, Demokratie leben! (Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth) and Vielfalt als Chance (Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labor and Energy Brandenburg).

⁴ Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals