Project description
Reimagining urban spaces and policy for migrant mobility
As global migration becomes increasingly circular and precarious, modern cities, traditionally built on principles of permanence, struggle to adapt. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the PLANwise project is exploring the migration-city nexus, reframing how spatial policies address temporary and mobile dwelling. While migrants often create a ‘city otherwise’ through informal infrastructures, urban policy frequently lags behind or exacerbates inequality. By mapping migration agencies across Los Angeles – in dialogue with Beirut and Milan – PLANwise will develop a revolutionary novel knowledge framework and practical tools for policymakers. The research is introducing a spatial lens to arrival processes, helping design more inclusive, adaptable cities that reflect the realities of contemporary international mobility.
Objective
As migration processes evolve and spark global debate, it is urgent to qualify the link between public debate, policy agendas, and research – especially in destination areas. PLANwise addresses the migration-city nexus, reframing the role of spatial policies towards migrants’ temporary and mobile city dwelling. Global crises and regulatory frameworks are making international migration increasingly fragmented, circular, and precarious. Migrants' temporal and spatial agencies, along with infrastructuring initiatives, produce a ‘city otherwise’ that challenges the principles of permanence and stability on which cities are built. In this context, the role of spatial policies remains unclear: urban policy often counteracts infrastructuring efforts, supports them only at a micro scale, or is altogether absent – exacerbating inequalities. PLANwise will develop a knowledge framework that reviews the role of spatial policies in relation to mobile and temporary dwelling, outlining approaches, arrangements, and tools for planners and policymakers at the city level.
From one of the world’s major arrival cities, Los Angeles, the project will map migration and infrastructuring agencies, showing their extension and territorial relevance, assess conditions for spatial policies engagement, and develop policy recommendations through critical mapping - informed by the secondment at the Beirut Urban Lab. Lessons learned will be framed back in the European policy and immigration context, in the return phase in Milan. This will enable the PI to bring a fresh perspective to the European debate, develop a policy-oriented approach, boosting her career as an independent researcher and international reference. The project will open a new research line introducing a spatial policy perspective to migration and urban studies on arrival processes. Its societal impact lies in the construction of a strong link between the public debate, policy agendas, and research - key for policy effectiveness.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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20133 Milano
Italy
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