Migrant-serving organizations and urban citizenship-making in times of crisis

Copenhagen, Berlin and Tel Aviv compared

Bibliographic Data

ID4525532
AuthorsDaleen Kruger (0000-0002-0378-335X, Urban and Regional Sociology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, corresponding author), Maayan Ravid (0009-0009-9554-1734, Bar-Ilan University), Lisa Chodorkoff (Roskilde University), Lisa Maurer Chodorkoff (Roskilde University), T Fogelman (0000-0002-7802-8498, Roskilde University), Henrik Lebuhn (Urban and Regional Sociology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany), Norm Cohen (0000-0003-3705-8399, Bar-Ilan University)
Year2024
Volume28
Issue3
Pages363-383
Publication date2024-04-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621025.2024.2371299
OpenAlexW4401826482
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited48

The role of civil society actors in urban citizenship had been recently examined by scholars. This article provides an investigation of how such actors interfaced with the local state during the pandemic to facilitate migrants’ urban citizenship, namely their place-based rights and resources. It focuses on migrant-serving organizations (MSOs), which are understood as key agents of migrant urban citizenship-making. Drawing on empirical research in Berlin, Copenhagen, and Tel Aviv, we argue that while the three cities were impacted by similar national responses to the pandemic, varied local governance contexts, in conjunction with national migrant regimes, resulted in different urban responses. These differences were characterized by the distinct mediation practices of MSOs: bricolaging, bridging and building. While our article brings a more nuanced understanding of how urban citizenship landscapes are (re)produced in times of crises, the act of identifying and describing the three modes of mediation practices contributes to the theorization of the ways in which civil society helps to shape urban citizenship

Citizenship · Civil society · Corporate governance · Mediation · Political science · Politics · Right to the city · Social science · Sociology · Tel aviv · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Public Administration · Urban Planning and Governance

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