What can #localgov do? What are their domestic competences-how does regulation shape their strategies? Thx fellow panelists Martha Davis, Delphine Burriez, Giovanni Boggero, commentator Bahram Ghazi, @BarbaraOomen + the engaged audience for an excellent panel! #CitiesofRefuge2022

What types of relationships are there between civil society and #localgov? Panel III of #CitiesofRefuge2022 in full swing with Moritz Baumgärtel, Christiane Heimann, Gülce Şafak ÖZDEMİR and Maurizio Artero!

A great first conference day of the Cities of Refuge project by @BarbaraOomen @TihomirSabchev Sara |• Elif Durmuş 🇵🇸 Moritz Baumgärtel! And more to come tomorrow! My main takeaways from today⬇️

And we are on Day 2 of #CitiesofRefuge2022 - the Final Conference of our project! Juan Carlos Triviño-Salazar says "city leadership is a combination of (1) personal leadership, (2) city vision, and (3)actions in Panel IV "If Mayors Ruled Migration"

"There is more to "the Local". Rural municipalities focus more on markers of integration rather than foundations of local citizenship. They also have a strong wish to deicde who get to stay." Says Miriam Haselbacher in an excellent presentation in #CitiesofRefuge2022 Panel IV.

"The leader takes control over the narrative in a crisis and makes sense & meaning to manage the situation. It is important to study leadership in a process-focussed way, and look at the actions of the leaders AND the leadership environment" - @TihomirSabchev #CitiesofRefuge2022

Importance of community, city leadership, EU (and other) funding, diasporas and more discussed at Roundtable I of #CitiesofRefuge2022 on community sponsorship for refugees with petrahueck, Niels Tubbing, Antje Grotheer, Moritz Baumgärtel and @TihomirSabchev

In Panel V on "Symbolism, Vity Branding and the Long Afterlives of Refugee Solidarity Models", Karin Geuijen discusses how we can learn from environmental sustainability research in exploring sustainability of local migration governance practices. #CitiesofRefuge2022

Very happy to be at the "Beyond Cities of Refuge" conference in Middleburg. Ready to start with our roundtable “Inter-city networks: fruitful marketplace or competitive scramble for resources?”. Thank you @BarbaraOomen and Elif Durmuş 🇵🇸 for inviting me. #CitiesofRefuge2022 Cities of Refuge

"City branding (for example as Human Rights City) is more than 'just talk', just symbolism, just discourse. By repeating a concept we are giving meaning and life to it, and you will never know where that life can go" says Sara |• in Panel V, #CitiesofRefuge2022

The highlight to finish: our large roundtable on inter-city networks in the field of migration and human rights, moderated by Elif Durmuş 🇵🇸. So much academic knowledge and practical experience on one stage (and a screen)! #CitiesofRefuge2022

“Inter-city networks: fruitful marketplace or competitive scramble for resources?” Today, our #GlobalCities Programme director, Agustí F. de Losada, has participated in the Cities of Refuge “Beyond Cities of Refuge” conference #CitiesofRefuge2022

It was SUCH a privilege to be able to gather this *incredible* group of people respresenting different stakeholders in the question of the proliferation of city networks, dangers of competition and the need for a more cooperative ecosystem of networks. To be continued!

Thanks to all #CitiesofRefuge2022 conference participants! We are happy that, next to all the work done, you got to see the #ZeeuwsLicht! Provincie Zeeland

Day two of the Cities of Refuge conference brought great discussions with Colleen Thouez, Octavi de la Varga, Lefteris Papagiannakis, @ThomasL44716301, Juan Carlos Triviño-Salazar, Agustí Fernandez de Losada, petrahueck, Niels Tubbing, Christiane Heimann & many more! Some takeaways ⬇️

Mayors recognize how the #ClimateCrisis disproportionately impacts migrants and displaced people. As new #GlobalCitiesFund grantees, 5 cities in #Africa will help people adapt in place or move from hazardous areas through ecologically sustainable projects: mayorsmigrationcouncil.org/gcf-ica

Four years ago, Sara |• and I published a call for papers for two LSA panels on local migration law and governance... The result is out as of today, OPEN ACCESS! 📖 It's an edited volume titled "Theorizing Local Migration Law and Governance" cambridge.org/core/books/the…

Almost time! I'll be defending my PhD titled "Breaking Free: Local Governments' Boundary-Defying Engagement with #HumanRights and Migration" tomorrow (29 Sept) at 16.15 CEST in Utrecht. There is a livestream: video.uu.nl/lives/senate_h… All welcome! #cities uu.nl/en/events/phd-…

Congratulations to dr Elif Durmuş 🇵🇸 on her #phd defence today on #internationallaw #cities #humanrights and #migrants at Utrecht University w her supervisors @BarbaraOomen and Moritz Baumgärtel

Our book is out! Fully open access here: taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/… Janne E Nijman @BarbaraOomen Sara |• Lisa Roodenburg