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Enforcing the rights of migrants with irregular status: City ID cards as a remedy?
Migrants who live in Switzerland without valid residence papers find themselves in a complex and contradictory legal position. Even though they are entitled to a great number of rights, they are rarely able to claim them in practice.
Irina Fehr
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Enacting Citizenship and the Right to the City: Towards Inclusion through Deepening Democracy?
In this introductory article, the main theoretical concerns guiding this thematic issue are briefly discussed, alongside an overview of relevant literature on rights and urban citizenship.
Helen Hintjens, Rachel Kurian
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Notwithstanding the territory contributed to define the notion of citizenship in modern times, it is desirable to mention that the influence of territory in the sense of citizenship is different today. Political territory and its representations, pillars
Khmais Zouhaier
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The Conception and Discourse of Smart City
The article traces the emergence of the smart city concept, and how it has developed in the global North and the global South. The article further explores the discourses around smart cities as found mentioned in the scholarship, and in several attempts
Deepak Kumar
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Medieval urban citizenship in the West in Max Weber’s historical sociology
Recent decades in social sciences have been marked by the interest in citizenship as the most important phenomenon of the contemporary world due to its current problems associated with globalization, relations between world centers of power along the ...
T. A. Dmitriev
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Contested Health Care System in Berlin: Are Illegalized Migrants Becoming Urban Citizens?
This article argues for an urban citizenship perspective which explores the struggle for rights and the everyday practices of illegalized migrants.
Holger Wilcke, Rosa Manoim
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The rapidly growing urban population in most African cities has highlighted the issue of access to urban land, particularly for housing. Access to urban land is ultimately embedded in the political question of who has a legitimate claim to the city ...
Horman Chitonge
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While the elderly constitute a significant proportion of urban population, they are often not included in the decision-making processes concerning their health requirements.
Rachel Kurian +3 more
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Spaces of Urban Citizenship: Two European Examples from Milan and Rotterdam
This article aims to highlight the emergence of urban citizenship spaces in two European cities—Milan, Italy, and Rotterdam, the Netherlands—where marginality and social exclusion are faced and coped with through social participation, appropriation of ...
Alba Angelucci
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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration
ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
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