BROAD-ER’s research activities are centred on three primary processes associated with cities’ efforts to develop autonomy and decouple from national governments. Each partner is responsible for a specific theme: The KU team is tasked with the theme of City Diplomacy (Internationalisation of Cities), the UPF team is responsible for the theme of Establishing New Relations between the National and the Local and Increasing Autonomy from National Government, and the UvA team is assigned to the theme of Detachment from Formal Governance by Independent Actors.
In terms of research, we have previously submitted D. 5.1 Conceptual Papers Prepared by Each Partner on Different Themes, D. 5.2 State-of-the-art Report on Urban Politics and Autonomy-building Processes of the Cities, and D. 5.3 Reports of the Fieldwork. Additionally, we, as BROAD-ER postdoctoral researchers, organised a panel titled “Towards Urban Autonomy in Migration Governance? City Diplomacy, Municipalism, and DIY” during the BROAD-ER International Summer School, which took place at KU from July 17 to July 28, 2023. Furthermore, BROAD-ER postdoctoral and doctoral researchers, with Principal Investigators (PI) serving as chairs and discussants, submitted another panel for the 21st IMISCOE Conference scheduled for July 2-5, 2024, in Lisbon.
As a further step in our research, this document (D5.4 Preliminary Report Synthesizing the Literature and the Fieldwork on Urban Politics and Autonomy-building Processes of the Cities) entails our theoretical framework and findings from our fieldwork in three cities (Istanbul, Barcelona, Amsterdam), along with a discussion aimed at integrating the fieldwork findings with our theoretical framework.
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State-of-the-art report on Urban Migration Politics and Autonomy Building Processes of Cities