Theorizing local migration law and governance / edited by Moritz Baumgartel, Sara Miellet.

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Introduction : theorizing local migration law and governance / Moritz Baumgärtel and Sara Miellet -- Crimmigration and crossover youth : the deportation of former wards of the state / Benjamin Perryman -- From control to deterrence : assessing border enforcement in South Africa / Jeff Handmaker and Caroline Nalule -- The 'safe harbor' of Berlin : socio-legal constellations and complex strategies of divergence / Moritz Baumgärtel and Franziska Pett -- Sanctuary cities and urban securitization in federal states / Graham Hudson -- Sanctuary values / Christopher N. Lasch -- Nationality, citizenship law, and questions of scale : colonial and postcolonial considerations / Radhika Mongia -- Sanctuary city, solidarity city, inclusive city (yet to come) : living invisibly in Toronto in times of the COVID-19 pandemic / Luisa Sotomayor and Liette Gilbert -- Postmodern identity and the structure of immigration control / Daniel I. Morales -- Community sponsorship of refugees and local governance : towards protection principles / Nikolas Feith Tan -- Concluding chapter / Mariana Valverde.

In many regions around the world, the governance of migration increasingly involves local authorities and actors. This edited volume introduces theoretical contributions that, departing from the 'local turn' in migration studies, highlight the distinct role that legal processes, debates, and instruments play in driving this development. Drawing on historical and contemporary case studies, it demonstrates how paying closer analytical attention to legal questions reveals the inherent tensions and contradictions of migration governance. By investigating socio-legal phenomena such as sanctuary jurisdictions, it further explores how the law structures ongoing processes of (re)scaling in this domain. Beyond offering conceptual and empirical discussions of local migration governance, this volume also directly confronts the pressing normative questions that follow from the growing involvement of local authorities and actors. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.