StatusCities · Migrant legal STATUS diversity and diversity dynamics in European CITIES

Migrant legal STATUS diversity and diversity dynamics in European CITIES

What is the problem being addressed? StatusCities aimed to provide a comprehensive investigation of the city level implications of migrants being differentiated by a myriad of legal status tracks. In practical terms this means that the problem the project addresses is a lack of understanding of how the regulation of migration creates different groups of migrants and how those differences in turn become relevant for local urban social dynamics. Why is it important for society? Conceptually and empirically the project focusses on superdiversity – which means that, from the outset, the aim is to think about migration-driven diversity in terms of multidimensional differentiations and how they are simultaneously relevant. Such a focus foregrounds diversity dynamics – rather than cross-sectional configurations. Such a focus is important for linking debates about the national level management of migration with debates on urban migration-related diversities. Doing so, is extremely timely given unprecedented migration to Europe and especially to Europe's cities. StatusCities contributes knowledge and methodological innovation by drawing on debates from various disciplinary fields and using a sophisticated and innovative mixed methods approach. Research has not yet investigated sufficiently how the multiplicity of status differences - with their associated eligibility criteria - affect people’s lives, for example their residential decisions. Understanding those link is crucial if we are to make sense of dynamic changes in migration-related diversity. With the current levels of migration StatusCities is devoted to filling this highly policy relevant knowledge void by putting in question migration control in light of its everyday implications for society at large. What are the overall objectives? The primary objective of the project was to contribute novel and cutting edge insights at the intersection between the interdisciplinary fields of urban and migration studies. A key objective in terms of content was to enable us to better understand the link between national level regulation [of migration] and local level diversities – moving beyond simple categories of difference and towards better understanding diversity dynamics.

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