Event type:

In person

Date & time:

13 Mar 2025, 12:00 – 13:00

Making Sanctuary Cities: Migration, citizenship and urban governance

Dr Rachel Humphris explains how citizenship is negotiated and contested in sanctuary cities – sharing examples from her fieldwork in San Francisco, Sheffield and Toronto.

Aerial view of Sheffield city centre skyline.
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Making Sanctuary Cities: Migration, citizenship and urban governance

Dr Rachel Humphris

Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Politics

Queen Mary University

Dr Rachel Humphris is a political sociologist whose research and teaching focuses on migration and citizenship, governance and policy-making, gender and race. She is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Politics at Queen Mary University of London and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Migration. 

Further information

Ticketing

Open

Cost

Free

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Rachel Benchekroun

rachel.benchekroun@ucl.ac.uk

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