Why cities hold the key to safe, orderly migration

Oct 4, 2018

Syrian refugees are presented with a child's winter jacket by Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on their arrival in Toronto in 2015.

Toronto, Barcelona and New York have offered themselves up as sanctuary cities. Many others must follow suit. Image: Reuters/Mark Blinch

Harald Bauder

Professor of Geography and the Director of the Graduate Program in Immigration and Settlement Studies, Ryerson University, Toronto

Loren Landau

South African Research Chair for Mobility & the Politics of Difference, African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

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