{"id":700,"date":"2025-05-28T19:28:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T19:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/integration-and-belonging\/?p=700"},"modified":"2025-06-14T16:42:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T16:42:33","slug":"forced-migration-and-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/integration-and-belonging\/courses\/forced-migration-and-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Forced Migration and the City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Places of Displacement\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Cities have long served as \u201cplaces of displacement\u201d where forced migrants found safety, built livelihoods, dealt with risks and marginalization, and identified opportunities. In the contemporary era, the humanitarian system of aid agencies, intergovernmental organizations, local charities, and other actors have followed forced migrants to these places of displacement to deliver aid and administer services. For this course, students were asked to choose a city that serves as a \u2018place of displacement\u2019 for forced migrants, explore the dynamics and interactions between forced migrants, other urban populations, municipal service providers and governments, and humanitarian actors, and analyze the city considering current discourses and events. In the end of the course students were asked to share a short video presentation that focuses on the tensions present between the city, the forced migrants, and the humanitarian efforts and include a brief overview of the history of the city and the populations of refugees, discuss Humanitarian and Municipal Policy Context of your city and\u00a0 consider the applicability of the \u201csanctuary city\u201d and city as nexus to the city of choice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Below, please see links to select student presentations from cities as diverse as Khartoum, Peshawar, Johannesburg, Massachusetts, Cairo and New York City.<\/span><\/p>\n