Urban citizenship, border practices and immigrants’ rights in Europe: ambivalences of a cosmopolitan project

Abstract: This article argues that as Europe has enlarged its external borders, it has also created an internal system of border controls that implicates civil servants at the local level in national migration policy. European cities have become an important arena where the expansion of the modes of control takes place. Using examples from German cities, the author questions whether politics of urban citizenship and legislation can compensate for the lack of civil rights that many migrants have to endure Tags: Academic