Knowledge Mobilization
Dreher, N., Sharma, K., Tortorici, T. (2026). Sanctuary and Resistance 2026: Adapting to Escalating Enforcement, Expanding Infrastructure, and Cross-Sector Solidarity,
(PDF file) "Urban Sanctuary, Migrant Solidarity and Hospitality in Asia" (opens in new window)
Tiwary, S., Anjana, M., & Yadav, A. (2026). Urban Sanctuary, Migrant Solidarity and Hospitality in Asia. Working Paper No. 26/02. /content/dam/centre-for-immigration-and-settlement/tmcis/publications/workingpapers/WP-2026-02-Tiwary-Anjana-Yadav.pdf
Dreher, N., & Bauder, H. (2025). Migrant and refugee solidarity in European cities: A meta-synthesis of key themes and approaches. Cities, 169, 106597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.106597
Guti茅rrez, M., Dreher, N., Kallergis, A., Agnew-Barajas, K., Braat, J., Magni, M., Tortorici, T., & anonymous contributors. (2025). Sanctuary and Resistance 2025: Evolving strategies in an uncertain landscape. Soli*City Research Network, Zolberg Institute for Migration and Mobility, https://rshare.library.torontomu.ca/articles/report/Sanctuary_and_Resistance_2025_Evolving_Strategies_in_an_Uncertain_Landscape/30085909?file=57799300
Bauder, H. & Boatemaa Setrana, M. (2025). Urban Migrant Inclusion and Refugee Protection - Volume 2. In IMISCOE research series. Springer Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-95151-0
Bauder, H. & Boatemaa Setrana, M. (2025). Urban Migrant Inclusion and Refugee Protection - Volume 1. In IMISCOE research series. Springer Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-95147-3
(PDF file) "Municipal Strategies for Integrating Healthcare Access for Illegalized Migrants in Germany: A Case Study of Ulm" (opens in new window)
Anders, F. (2025). Municipal Strategies for Integrating Healthcare Access for Illegalized Migrants in Germany: A Case Study of Ulm. Working Papers, /content/dam/centre-for-immigration-and-settlement/tmcis/publications/workingpapers/wp-2025-12-Friederike-Anders.pdf
Frackson Thom, N., Kazadi M., & Koskimaki L. (2025). "15: Migrant livelihoods and strategies in urban South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of Congolese and Zimbabwean migrants in two Cape Town neighbourhoods." In Handbook of Research on Migration, COVID-19 and Cities. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035301232.00024
" (PDF file) Innovative approaches to community-based housing for precarious migrants and refugees: A policy report (opens in new window) "
B. Collrin, & N. Dreher. (2025). Innovative Approaches to Community-Based Housing for Precarious Migrants and Refugees: A Policy Report, /content/dam/centre-for-immigration-and-settlement/tmcis/publications/researchbriefs/2025-01-collrin-dreher.pdf
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Tapia Ladino, M., & de la Vega, V. (2024). Sanctuary Cities in Andean Countries. A Literature Review (2000-2022). Convergencia Journal of Social Sciences, 31 , 1-27. doi:10.29101/crcs.v31i0.23692
Stefoni, C., Bravo, A., & Stang, F. (2024). Solidarity and mobilities in the cities of the Latin American Southern Cone: Local experiences in global debates. Rumbos TS. A Critical Space for Reflection in Social Sciences , (31), 139-165. https://doi.org/10.51188/rrts.num31.779
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Koskimaki, L., & Mukafuku, C. (2024). Refugee Precarity and Collective Transformation: Ongoing Struggles for a Liberatory Praxis in Urban South Africa. Social Inclusion, 12, Article 8858. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.8858
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Mbatha, N., & Koskimaki, L. (2024). Temporalities of Arrival: Burundian Barbershops as an Arrival Infrastructure in a South African Township. Urban Planning, 9, Article 8674. https://doi.org/10.17645/up.8674
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Jessica D. Jung, Graham Hudson & Harald Bauder. 2024. Urban sanctuary in Canadian mid-sized cities. Working paper no. 2024/02. 麻豆视频.
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Drejer-Jensen, Maria Genet. 2023. A Fight for Migrant Women, and a Fight for Equality Incorporating a gender perspective into Mexico City鈥檚 Prospective Sanctuary City Policies. MA Thesis in Culture, Communication & Globalization at Aalborg University.
"Refugees and volunteers across borders: How self-organized volunteers form networks and help advice refugees in their decision to leave Denmark and seek asylum in Germany or Spain. "
Arndt Lind, Maria Antonie. 2023. Refugees and volunteers across borders: How self-organized volunteers form networks and help advice refugees in their decision to leave Denmark and seek asylum in Germany or Spain. MA Thesis in Culture, Communication & Globalization from Aalborg University.
"Examining Localized Policy Approaches in Support of Precarious Status Non-Citizens in 麻豆视频 and New York City."
Gustave, Rachel. (2023). Examining Localized Policy Approaches in Support of Precarious Status Non-Citizens in 麻豆视频 and New York City. MA Program in Immigration and Settlement Studies, 麻豆视频: 麻豆视频.
" (PDF file) Decolonizing Migration Studies: The Case of Hospitality, Sanctuary, and Solidarity."
Harald Bauder, Nick Dreher, Omar Lujan & Oluwafunmilayo Asolo. 2023. Decolonizing Migration Studies: The Case of Hospitality, Sanctuary, and Solidarity. TMCIS/CERC Working paper no. 2023/03. 麻豆视频.
" (PDF file) Access to Early Childhood Services by Precarious Status Families: Negotiating Multiple Borders in a Sanctuary City"
Judith K. Bernhard, Julie E. E. Young, and Luin Goldring. 2023. Access to Early Childhood Services by Precarious Status Families: Negotiating Multiple Borders in a Sanctuary City, 麻豆视频 Canada. Working paper no. 2023/02. 麻豆视频.
Mazani, Perfect. 2022. Migration and Hospitality in Cape Town. A case of Zimbabwean Migrants and Refugees. Mini thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Development Studies at the Institute of Social Development (ISD), Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) at the University of Western Cape. December 2022.
Soli*darity Access Guide
The SOLI*CITY Library serves as a reference tool for students, researchers, practitioners, and activists with interest in the growing literature on topics related to Urban Sanctuary, Migrant Solidarity and Hospitality in the Global Perspective.
Healthcare Access for Undocumented Migrants: A Soli*City International Roundtable. (June 12, 2026)
This Soli*City roundtable brought together researchers and community practitioners to discuss healthcare access for undocumented and precarious-status migrants, with a focus on reproductive and perinatal care in 麻豆视频, Canada, and Berlin, Germany. The event included scholarly presentations that compared the two cities' access regimes and featured the work of the .
Rethinking migration and belonging for migrants in an unequal South Africa: A Soli*City International Roundtable. (November 10, 2025)
This roundtable brings together scholars and civil society actors to unpack and reflect on the historical roots of exclusion, the lived realities of migrants, and the collective responsibility to transform South Africa into a space of solidarity rather than scapegoating. We will explore strategies, challenges, and emerging practices that can inform both academic research and practical responses in different local and international contexts. The first roundtable will feature insights from James Chapman (Head of Advocacy at the Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town), Dale McKinley (Kopanang Africa Against Xenophobia [KAAX]), and Nomkhosi Mbatha (PhD Candidate, University of the Western Cape).
Sanctuary and Resistance Initative
In an era of intense polarization, politicization, and misinformation around immigration in the United States and beyond, the need for substantive discussions that draw on both expertise and local knowledge has never been more urgent.
The Sanctuary and Resistance roundtable series offers a space for dialogue and information exchange by bringing together policymakers, practitioners, academic experts, and community leaders to discuss shifts in immigration policy and enforcement, community impact, and civil responses. The objective of the series is to provide in-depth information around relevant and timely topics (e.g., enforcement surges in Minneapolis/St. Paul; the expansion of ICE detention infrastructure into rural communities; en mass revocation of lawful status) and track how communities experience and lawfully respond to new developments.
The Sanctuary and Resistance initiative is driven by the principles of independence and collaboration between policymakers, practitioners, and scholars, striving toward dialogue that translates into more informed, effective, and just policy responses at all levels of government from local to national. Our objective is to ground immigration policy debates in the local impacts on communities and municipalities and, in so doing, surface the complexity that top-down narratives often flatten.
Sanctuary and Resistance roundtable discussions are organized around the following guiding principles:
- Embracing Narrative Complexity: Discussions embrace the complexity inherent to immigration legal and policy frameworks, politics, longstanding social inequities, and uncertainty that immigrants and their communities face. They aim to unpack this complexity while showcasing the real, potential, immediate, and long-term effects of policies.
- Offering Timely, Relevant, and Action-Oriented Information. Topics are chosen based on emerging challenges and successes in immigration policy and response. We aim to balance urgent discussions with the strategic patience required to build sustainable local resilience and ability to welcome. We also aim, in each session, to anticipate topics for future focus.
- Recognizing the Broader Social Impacts of Policies. Immigration policy is not only a technical, legal, or political matter. Its impacts are not isolated to immigrant communities but affect neighborhoods, cities, and society at large. We focus on the impact of communities and people. We treat the social impact and human experience of these policies as central in our conversations.
- Respectful and Inclusive: S+R 26 invites experts, specialists, local and municipal actors, and community who bring relevant expertise to the session topic. Sessions are open to all invited participants, who may invite others, and are unrecorded. We recognize that participating organizations and individuals vary significantly in their risk tolerance, political strategy, and institutional alignment. We seek to foster a respectful, considerate space that navigates this diversity of participation through a commitment to shared values, ensuring that all voices - especially those from immediately impacted communities - are heard and valued.
- Collaborative and Sustained. Participants are invited to share their contact information to foster cross-sector coalition-building and webs of mutual support. On some occasions, working groups may form to pursue community-responsive research and concept development.
Initiative Reports
Since January 2025, the Sanctuary and Resistance Initiative has organized more than ten roundtable conversations. The key themes and discussion points from these conversations are covered in our two initiative reports:
by Mar铆a Guti茅rrez and Nick Dreher- by Tom Tortorici, Nick Dreher, & Kanushka Sharma
Stay Engaged
Sanctuary and Resistance hosts a monthly roundtable discussion series and working group. It is a collaborations of the Soli*City Research Network (麻豆视频) and the (The New School).
If you would like to get involved or join our listserv, please contact Nick Dreher, ndreher@torontomu.ca.
