Human rights practice and the city

Graham, Emily E.; Gready, Paul; Hoddy, Eric; Pennington, R.D. Jean A.T.; Oomen, Barbara; Davis, Martha F.; Grigolo, Michele

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“…Another implicit TMN activity could be labelled “storytelling,” the search for an alternative narrative on migration that sets the city apart from restrictive national policies and contributes to its identity. In a policy domain subject to heated local and national debates, urban actors often actively search for a narrative to convince those opposed to the need to strengthen refugee welcome and integration (Graham et al 2016, 181; Bauder 2017). Such a narrative, according to many mayors, couples local culture and tradition to wider global struggles and objectives.…”

Section: The Functions Served By Teaming Up and Network Proliferationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decoupling and Teaming up: The Rise and Proliferation of Transnational Municipal Networks in the Field of Migration

Oomen

2019

International Migration Review

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Cities claim an ever-larger role in migration governance, often by means of progressive policies that “decouple” the local from the national. The literature on this “local turn” has generally failed to recognize how this decoupling increasingly takes place within the context of Transnational Municipal Networks (TMNs). On the basis of a database of the 20 most important TMNs in refugee and migrant welcome and integration in Europe and additional empirical research, this article identifies and analyzes their main characteristics, composition, and activities in a multiscalar context, thus contributing to a better understanding of migration governance. It argues that these networks, by means of a wide variety of activities, serve a practical but also a symbolic and jurisgenerative purpose. These implicit and explicit objectives of city networking also account for the proliferation of TMNs witnessed across Europe since 2015. In “teaming up,” European cities not only share practical experiences but also develop narratives about migration that counter national, more restrictive discourses and contribute to the global legal framework, as was the case with the Global Compact on Refugees and Migrants. It is this practical, symbolic, and jurisgenerative role of TMNs, in times of increasingly restrictive national policies, that makes these networks key actors in contesting but also improving global migration governance.

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Section: The Functions Served By Teaming Up and Network Proliferationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decoupling and Teaming up: The Rise and Proliferation of Transnational Municipal Networks in the Field of Migration

Oomen

2019

International Migration Review

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“…At the same time, however, Bologna's example also highlights the importance of local strategic alliances that represent the consensual side of urban politics of human rights. Such strategic alliances are arguably the bedrock of HRCs (Graham et al 2016, Neubeck 2016. They tailor the abstract human rights notions to the local context and provide answer to the question 'who deserves what' in the city.…”

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“…Viewed through the prism of the broader HRCs literature, Bologna's case highlights a common thread in HRCs: a relatively broad local coalition between public and civil society actors advocating for human rights (despite any internal conflicts) and a confrontation with a higher level of government (predominantly the national) over a contentious issue pertaining to access to or realisation of rights (migration, austerity measures, etc.) (Graham et al 2016, Kaufman and Ward 2017, Smith 2017, Baumgärtel and Oomen 2019, Roodenburg 2019, see also Chapter 4 in Hirschl 2020). Consequently, and taking into account the above discussion on the multi-level nature of urban politics, such HRCs can be interpreted as a response to a conflict between legality and perceived justice, which is manifested at the local level.…”

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Urban Politics of Human Rights

Nijman¹,

Oomen²,

Durmuş³

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With contributions from a stellar roster of established and emerging human rights scholars, this book puts urban communities and governance at its center. The results are riveting, and illuminating for both theory and practice. From Istanbul to São Paulo, from San Francisco to Nairobi, the topics covered are broad. At the same time, there is exceptional depth to the analyses, in large part because the chapters are positioned in dialogue around key issues of spatial inequalities, norm diffusion, mobilisation, housing, urban politics, and more. This remarkable volume expands our understanding of the human rights-urban nexus in ways that will reverberate far beyond its pages.'

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“…Discussing the implementation of global urban justice in York (United Kingdom), Graham, Gready, Hoddy and Pennington (2016) elucidate the importance of enthusiastic individuals or initiators to expand to the formation of broader coalitions that include both governmental and non-governmental parties. The York Human Rights City project included the Council of York City, the international Service and the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, and also other local social justice organizations and the university.…”

Section: Literature Review Building Human Rights Citiesmentioning

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The Political Dynamics on Development Process of Human Rights Cities: Lessons from South Korea and Indonesia

Mulia¹

2021

Ind. J. Pol. Studies

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There has not been a comparative study on the human rights cities in South Korea and Indonesia. Therefore, this paper conduct a comparative study of the dynamics within the development process of the human rights city in Gwangju and Wonosobo. This study explains how both cities flourished into Human Rights Cities using agenda-building theory. Moreover, this research elucidates the main actors and their respective roles in the development of both Human Rights Cities. Employing qualitative methods of data collection and analysis, this study found similarities and differences between the development processes of both Human Rights Cities. This article found that civil society organizations’ efforts were influential in the initiation stage in Gwangju. Meanwhile, in the case of Wonosobo, the concept of brandishing itself as a Human Rights City came from the Mayor. As a result, the top-down agenda-building process in Wonosobo took place faster than the development of the bottom-up human rights city of Gwangju.

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Human rights practice and the city

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Decoupling and Teaming up: The Rise and Proliferation of Transnational Municipal Networks in the Field of Migration

Decoupling and Teaming up: The Rise and Proliferation of Transnational Municipal Networks in the Field of Migration

Urban Politics of Human Rights

The Political Dynamics on Development Process of Human Rights Cities: Lessons from South Korea and Indonesia

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