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Luisa Sotomayor
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Excited about my new books to read on my daily commute to @cityinstitute.bsky.social: @javierauyero.bsky.social’s and Sofia Servian’s ‘Squatter Life’, Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero’s ‘Class meets land’ and Premilla Nadasen ‘Care: the highest stage of capitalism’.
May 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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New paper! With Ryan Whitney, we examined how Medellin’s electric escalators were mobilized to #CDMX as a best practice. Despite poor implementation, political actors benefited as they played the politics of visibility. Free to download until Feb 2: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
December 14, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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Amidst Trump’s election and Canada’s surge in anti-immigrant, alt-right politics, Liette Gilbert and I call for a radical rethink: municipalities should protect non-status residents with a generous form of “non-status” citizenship. 1/2 #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Non-status people face a socio-legal precariousness that contradicts the promises of an inclusive city. Marking Toronto's tenth anniversary of its “sanctuary city” policy, our research assesses the progress and potential of social planning and municipalist agendas to support irregularised residents. Drawing from interviews with service providers, city officials, and non-status citizens in Toronto, we propose a decolonial politics of urban citizenship recognition we call “non-status citizenship”. This concept addresses specific paradoxes related to irregularisation, access, jurisdiction, and regularisation. By framing our discussion around these paradoxes, we highlight the discomfort and transformative potential of non-status citizenship for immigration regimes in sanctuary cities. We argue that recognising non-status citizenship goes beyond notions of urban citizenship to claim formal recognition and security, which resolves the four paradoxes theoretically, politically, and practically. We also emphasise the role of cities in expanding service delivery and calling out the failure of planning across levels of government.
November 13, 2024 at 6:10 PM