Solidarity Cities and Cosmopolitanism from Below: Barcelona as a Refugee City

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Autor(a) principal: Agustín, Óscar García
Data de Publicação: 2019
Outros Autores: Jørgensen, Martin Bak
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v7i2.2063
Resumo: The so-called ‘refugee crisis’ provoked a wave of solidarity movements across Europe. These movements contrasted with attitudes of rejection against refugees from almost all EU member states and a lack of coordinated and satisfactory response from the EU as an institution. The growth of the solidarity movement entails backlash of nationalized identities, while the resistance of the member states to accept refugees represents the failure of the cosmopolitan view attached to the EU. In the article, we argue that the European solidarity movement shapes a new kind of cosmopolitanism: cosmopolitanism from below, which fosters an inclusionary universalism, which is both critical and conflictual. The urban scale thus becomes the place to locally articulate inclusive communities where solidarity bonds and coexistence prevail before national borders and cosmopolitan imaginaries about welcoming, human rights, and the universal political community are enhanced. We use the case of Barcelona to provide a concrete example of intersections between civil society and a municipal government. We relate this discussion to ongoing debates about ‘sanctuary cities’ and solidarity cities and discuss how urban solidarities can have a transformative role at the city level. Furthermore, we discuss how practices on the scale of the city are up-scaled and used to forge trans-local solidarities and city networks.
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title Solidarity Cities and Cosmopolitanism from Below: Barcelona as a Refugee City
spellingShingle Solidarity Cities and Cosmopolitanism from Below: Barcelona as a Refugee City
Agustín, Óscar García
Barcelona; cosmopolitanism; municipalism; refugee crisis; solidarity
title_short Solidarity Cities and Cosmopolitanism from Below: Barcelona as a Refugee City
title_full Solidarity Cities and Cosmopolitanism from Below: Barcelona as a Refugee City
title_fullStr Solidarity Cities and Cosmopolitanism from Below: Barcelona as a Refugee City
title_full_unstemmed Solidarity Cities and Cosmopolitanism from Below: Barcelona as a Refugee City
title_sort Solidarity Cities and Cosmopolitanism from Below: Barcelona as a Refugee City
author Agustín, Óscar García
author_facet Agustín, Óscar García
Jørgensen, Martin Bak
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Agustín, Óscar García
Jørgensen, Martin Bak
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Barcelona; cosmopolitanism; municipalism; refugee crisis; solidarity
topic Barcelona; cosmopolitanism; municipalism; refugee crisis; solidarity
description The so-called ‘refugee crisis’ provoked a wave of solidarity movements across Europe. These movements contrasted with attitudes of rejection against refugees from almost all EU member states and a lack of coordinated and satisfactory response from the EU as an institution. The growth of the solidarity movement entails backlash of nationalized identities, while the resistance of the member states to accept refugees represents the failure of the cosmopolitan view attached to the EU. In the article, we argue that the European solidarity movement shapes a new kind of cosmopolitanism: cosmopolitanism from below, which fosters an inclusionary universalism, which is both critical and conflictual. The urban scale thus becomes the place to locally articulate inclusive communities where solidarity bonds and coexistence prevail before national borders and cosmopolitan imaginaries about welcoming, human rights, and the universal political community are enhanced. We use the case of Barcelona to provide a concrete example of intersections between civil society and a municipal government. We relate this discussion to ongoing debates about ‘sanctuary cities’ and solidarity cities and discuss how urban solidarities can have a transformative role at the city level. Furthermore, we discuss how practices on the scale of the city are up-scaled and used to forge trans-local solidarities and city networks.
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