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This chapter focuses on the protection of undocumented migrants in New York City during the Trump presidency, a period of heightened immigration enforcement that explicitly targeted cities with policies of withholding information about immigration status from the federal government. The increased threat of unpredictable raids by federal immigration officers, particularly outside courthouses, led municipal authorities to increase funding for services intended to protect immigrants with precarious legal status, including information sessions about individual rights and free legal services to regularize status and contest deportation orders. However, given that contact with the criminal justice system remains the primary means by which federal authorities locate deportable migrants, a recent policy shift outside the field of immigrant rights, involving the decriminalization of low-level offenses, has also indirectly offered a significant measure of protection. This analysis attempts to quantify the impact of migrant-specific policies versus criminal justice reform and explores the merits of various strategies available to cities attempting to shield residents lacking legal status from the effects of national immigration enforcement, beyond traditional methods of limiting cooperation with the federal government.
The chapters in this volume all address the challenges posed by the presence of migrant populations in urban environments, and the way local policy actors answer the various questions that this presence raises. Despite a diversity of situations, the same interrogations are at stake from Canada to Chile: how can local decision-makers act on what has become a major social and political issue throughout the Americas, in areas as diverse as security, access to health, education and housing services, urban economic development, and the peaceful coexistence of increasingly diverse ethnic and national-origin groups? What place in the city can be given to these populations long-term, in terms of real participation in urban life, from an economic, socio-cultural, or political perspective? As was highlighted in the introduction to this volume, cities are at the forefront of the arrival and settlement of foreign populations. In parallel with questions concerning the legal status of the foreign populations in their midst -over which they ultimately have little control -cities have to deal with issues that are both more immediate and more pragmatic, including those of the daily life of any urban population, with its issues of access to the city and its resources, its labor market, its amenities and its opportunities. From North to South America, initiatives by urban leaders are marked by cross-cutting approaches, some driven by local actors animated by a desire to strengthen the political affirmation of an inclusive city, others by a more or less opportunistic response to growing social demands for action.In this concluding section, we consider some of the main aspects that can be highlighted upon juxtaposition of the case studies developed in the volume. Although the book is not comparative in nature, the aim of this section is to point out patterns of commonalities and distinctions beyond situated contexts, and to initiate a reflection on the dialectical and evolving relationships between migration, the city and public action. Central to the book has been the need to locate reception policies in their dual environments, that of migration dynamics, on the one hand, and of the structural conditions that allow for urban action, on the other. These two parameters undergird the meaning and scope of hospitality measures, and thus the framework in which the questions of reception are posed.Clearly, the migratory processes of the last decade are in constant evolution, and the
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