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Europe seems to be shifting to the right - at least in many places and in a number of national governments we can observe a rise of the far right and a reorientation towards authoritarian and nationalist ideas. The proclaimed fight against so-called irregular migration seems to have drifted from the right to the centre and even centre-left of national politics. At the same time, numerous organisations, institutions, social movements, activists and individuals, sometimes local governments, are fighting for and defending basic human rights. Often in alliance with people on the move, this fight for inclusion, solidarity and the right to exist and participate in society takes place on the routes and at the places of arrival.
In the seminar ‘spatial planning and migration: challenging borders’, we want to look at different national spatial planning contexts in Europe and how they deal with the arrival of migrants and refugees.
There are different ways in which the organisation of space and spatial planning are intertwined with the arrival of migrants and refugees. We will look at concepts from the critical border studies as well as such as the ‘post-migrant society’ (Foroutan 2019), but also at solidarity movements and their impact on spatial planning and spatial development. We will explore the question of how spatial planning is embedded in national and supranational contexts, and to what extent local governments can organise arrival infrastructures in their own way by examining case studies. Cases we will discuss include the network of solidarity and sanctuary cities, municipality movements, concepts of urban citizenship, and arrival infrastructures and neighbourhoods. We won’t only focus on cities and urban spaces, but also on rural areas and their specific contexts and challenges. Finally, we will discuss the extent to which Europe's external borders, their externalisation and border regimes can be discussed as a spatial planning issue.
After the kick-off meeting, the seminar will take place in double sessions. In preparation for each session, there will be a compulsory reading of academic texts. In small groups, each participant will moderate a seminar session (1,5h): this includes developing a didactic concept to deliver and discuss the content with the seminar group. |
