Migrant Protection and the City in the Americas

Laurent Faret is Professor of Geography at the University of Paris Diderot, France, and Researcher at the Center for Social Studies of Africa, the Americas, and Asia (CESSMA). Hilary Sanders is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. Protecting migrants in practice : tensions and limits in North America.- Chapter 2. Tucson, Arizona, from the Central American sanctuary movement to the contemporary immigrants’ rights movement.- Chapter 3. Reacting to the sanctuary city crackdown: the limits of migrant protection in (post-2016) New York City.- Chapter 4. Austin, TX : The Intersection between the #19TooMany movement and overlapping layers of governance in a self-named Welcoming City.- Chapter 5. Sanctuary, Surveillance, and the City: The Case of Toronto, Canada.- Chapter 6. “A Responsible and Committed City”: Montreal’s Sanctuary Policy.- Part II. Nascent protective policies in Latin America.- Chapter 7. “Sello Migrante” or restrictive hospitality: The case of Quilicura in Santiago, Chile.- Chapter 8. Has Mexico City truly become a Ciudad hospitalaria? Insights from the Central American migration experience in the metropolitan context.- Chapter 9. Welcome or Expel? Migratory Dilemmas in Tijuana.- Chapter 10. Urban Fragility and integration policies of immigrant communities in San José, Costa Rica.- Chapter 11. Lima as a welcoming city for the Venezuelan migrant population : problems and challenges.- Chapter 12. Conclusion.