The following publications provide a collection of resources on the topic of migration, mobility, cities, and citizenship. It is intended to be used as a growing repository of research on different topics relating to cities and migration. The publications are authored by members of the Collaborative and are organized according to different themes that reflect the research initiatives of the Collaborative. The page will be updated frequently with new additions.
Use the links below to navigate quickly to the desired section:
1. Mobility and Urban Governance
2. Mobility and Urban Performance
3. Cities and Climate Migration
4. Cities, Human Mobility and Digital Citizenship
5. City and Contentious Politics
6. Refugees and cities
Mobility and Urban Governance
Becoming Urban Humanitarians. Engaging Local Government to Protect Displaced People
Ben Edwards, Loren B. Landau, Jean Pierre Misago, David Obot, and Caroline Wanjiku-Kihato.
Urban Institute Research Report, August 2016, 35
More Inclusive Cities in East Africa: Working with Politics and Informality
Lucy Earle
Briefing, February 2020
A Chronotope of Containment Development: Europe’s Migrant Crisis and Africa’s Reterritorialisation
Loren B. Landau
Antipode 51, no. 1 (2019): 169–86
Displacement and the Pursuit of Urban Protection: Forced Migration, Fluidity and Global Cities
Loren B. Landau
In Forced Migration: Current Issues and Debates, edited by Alice Bloch and Giorgia Donà. London: Routledge, 2017
Southern Urbanism, Legalization, and the Limits of Migration Law
Loren B. Landau
AJIL Unbound 111 (2017): 165–71.
Temporality, Informality, and Translocality in Africa’s Urban Archipelagos
Loren B. Landau
Antipode 51, no. 1 (2019): 169–86
Misreading Mobility? Bureaucratic Politics and Blindness in UN Migration Reports.
Loren B. Landau and E. Tendayi Achiume
Mobility and Urban Performance
Measuring Municipal Capacity to Respond to Mobility
Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa and Loren B. Landau
SAGE Open 9, no. 1 (January 2019)
Cities and Climate Migration
Cross-Border Displacement, Climate Change and Disasters: Latin America and the Caribbean.
David James Cantor
Platform on Disaster Displacement and UNHCR (July 2018)
Disasters, displacement and a new framework in the Americas
David James Cantor
Forced Migration Review, no. 49 (May 2015).
Migrants and Natural Disasters: National Law, Policy and Practice in the Americas.
David James Cantor
Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Policy Brief Series 2, no. 2 (February 2016)
Cities, Human Mobility and Digital Citizenship
The Citizen-Makers: Ethical Dilemmas in Immigrant Integration
Liav Orgad
25(6) European Law Journal 524 (2019)
Cloud Communities: The Dawn of Global Citizenship?
Liav Orgad and Rainer Baubock
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSCAS 2018/28
City and Contentious Politics
Countries of Migrants, Cities of Migrants – Italy, Spain, Turkey
Marcello Balbo Ahmet İçduygu Julio Pérez Serrano
Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2013
Displacement of European Citizen Roma in Berlin: Acts of Citizenship and Sites of Contentious Politics.
Ayşe Çağlar
Citizenship Studies 20, no. 5 (July 3, 2016): 647–63
Still ‘Migrants’ after All Those Years: Foundational Mobilities, Temporal Frames and Emplacement of Migrants
Ayşe Çağlar
ournal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 42, no. 6 (2016): 952–69
Urban Migration Trends, Challenges and Opportunities in Europe
Ayşe Çağlar
Background Paper. World Migration Report 2015. Migrants and Cities: New Partnerships to Manage Mobility, December 2014
Locating Migration: Rescaling Cities and Migrants
Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse Çağlar (editors)
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015
Migration, Membership and Multi-Level Governance: Incentivising Inclusion in an Era of Urban Mobility within the New Urban Agenda
Kihato, C.W., and Loren B. Landau
International Development Planning Review 39 (October 1, 2017): 371–74
Friendship Fears and Communities of Convenience in Africa’s Urban Estuaries: Connection as Measure of Urban Condition
Loren B. Landau
Urban Studies 55, no. 3 (February 1, 2018): 505–21
Exorcising the Demons within: Xenophobia, Violence and Statecraft in Contemporary South Africa
Loren B. Landau
Johannesburg; Tokyo; New York: Wits University Press; published in North America and Europe by United Nations University Press, 2012
Refugees and cities
Towards More Inclusive Urban Health Systems for Refugee Wellbeing: Lessons from Kampala, Uganda
Anna Walnycki, Lucy Earle and William Monteith
Working Paper. London: International Institute for Environment and Development, December 2019
Displacement and Disconnection? Exploring the Role of Social Networks in the Livelihoods of Refugees in Gaziantep, Nairobi, and Peshawar
Kabiri Bule, Ammar A. Malik, Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, Yasemin Irvin-Erickson, Benjamin Edwards, and Edward Mohr
Urban Institute, June 22, 2017
No Way Back? Adaptation and Urbanization of IDP Livelihoods in the Darfur Region of Sudan
Helen Young and Karen Jacobsen
Development and Change 44 (January 1, 2013): 125–45
Building Livelihood Opportunities for Refugee Populations: Lessons from Past Practice
Karen Jacobsen and Susan Fratzke
Migration Policy Institute, September 7, 2016
Migration Plans and Decision-Making among Refugees, IDPs and Host Communities in Peri-Urban Erbil, Iraq: The Effect of a UNIDO Intervention
Karen Jacobsen, Charles Simpson, and Noriko Takahashi
Working Paper 1/2019. United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 2019
Sudanese Refugees in Cairo: Remittances and Livelihoods
Karen Jacobsen, Ayoub Maysa, and Alice Johnson
Journal of Refugee Studies 27, no. 1 (March 1, 2014): 145–59
Livelihoods and Forced Migration
Karen Jacobsen
The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, edited by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Gil Loescher, Katy Long, and Nando Sigona. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014
Stealth Humanitarianism: Negotiating Politics, Precarity and Performance Management in Protecting the Urban Displaced
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato Loren B. Landau
ournal of Refugee Studies 30, no. 3 (2017): 407–425
Displacement and the Pursuit of Urban Protection: Forced Migration, Fluidity and Global Cities
Loren B. Landau
In Forced Migration: Current Issues and Debates, edited by Alice Bloch and Giorgia Donà. London: Routledge, 2017
Urban Refugees and IDPs
Loren B. Landau
n The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, edited by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Gil Loescher, Katy Long, and Nando Sigona. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014
Protection through Mobility: Opening Labor and Study Migration Channels to Refugees
Katy Long and Sarah Rosengaertner
Migration Policy Institute, October 3, 2016
