Migration in times of multiple crisis - a focus on climate change, new technologies and urban planning (LV / Seminar) Migration in times of multiple crisis - a focus on climate change, new technologies and urban planning (LV / Seminar)

Migration in times of multiple crisis - a focus on climate change, new technologies and urban planning.

Over the past decade the role of migration for urban development and for societal transformation has changed profoundly. We do observe accelerated migration and mobility patterns, displacement and forced migration grew in unseen speed. In the slipstream of these changes – now under the conditions of multiple crisis - new stakeholders became prominent for the governance of migration. NGOs such as IOM, but also transnational city networks, diasporas, grassroot organisations, sometimes even universities, took over where the national scale was seemingly unable to response to the implications of migration. By now, private actors, for example recruiting agencies, started dictating the pace of labour-market related migration, in many cases through the ntroduction of new technologies. New forms of semi-migration, e.g. digital nomads, came into life. This seminar starts from the assumption that migration reveals different forms of social and spatial fragmentation already present in our societies. It focusses especially on those changes that occur as part of the global climate crises and that are going along with the introduction of new technologies (algorithms, matching tools, social media, platforms). Next to this, it emphasizes the relevance of migration-related urban planning and glocal social policies for urban transformation and regional development.

The seminar offers input on central aspects of migration research by lectures by the docent (on definitions, data, theories, pitfalls in methodology) to offer a quick orientation in the field of knowledge. Yet, the main focus of work will be on the development of student papers (please find more information here: https://www.tu.berlin/isr/nups/services-datenbanken-und-publikationen). The student papers take up the ideas and perspectives of smaller groups of students. They will be published on the nups-website and presented to an interested audience via a webinar in the end of the seminar. The students are encouraged to develop an own research agenda and to follow their interests in research.

A syllabus is offered, PDFs of relevant publication are made available as PDFs.

Level: Master students of different fields of studies are invited to participate (Urban and Regional Development, Urban Design, ecc).