Human mobility has been on the rise in the last decade due to insecurity and poverty around the world. In this context of evolving international migration in the 21st century, cities are at the forefront of welcoming immigrants, compelled to adapt and address the question of integration and reception policies. The editors of this volume tackle this issue, focusing on urban responses to the international context of migration restrictions in the Americas in the last decade. Its goal is to establish patterns of convergence and divergence between cities in North and Latin America through the urban sanctuary perspective. What are the reception policies and urban actions in a context of migration? How do cities adapt and integrate foreign populations?
To answer these questions, this volume brings together contributors who explore and provide vivid empirical examples through case studies on the Sanctuary Movement, that was at first “a largely church-based movement [in the 1980s] whose purp...
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