Description
Previously marginalized migrants were some of the most negatively impacted by the covid-19 pandemic and governmental responses to it. This article examines how migrant-serving organizations (MSOs), which have grown in importance, responded to the pandemic and interfaced with the local state to facilitate migrants’ rights and access to resources. Conceptualizing MSOs as central elements of infrastructures of migrant urban citizenship, we highlight the processual and relational nature of citizenship as always made and remade through infrastructural actors' work and practices. Empirically we draw on interviews from three cases: Berlin, Copenhagen, and Tel Aviv. Having shared national responses to the pandemic but representing different migratory and citizenship regimes, the comparison of the three cases highlights the relevance of local governance contexts. We argue that while MSOs mobilized through the crisis to identify opportunities, these different local contexts resulted in different modes of citizenship-making at times of crisis: building, bridging and brokering.| Period | 23 Jan 2023 |
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| Held at | Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung, Germany |
| Degree of Recognition | National |