Urban Planning Open Access Journal | ISSN: 2183-7635 Volume 6, Issue 2 (2021) Migration-LedMigration-Led InstitutionalInstitutional ChangeChange inin UrbanUrban DevelopmentDevelopment andand PlanningPlanning Editors Robert Barbarino, Charlotte Räuchle and Wolfgang Scholz Urban Planning, 2021, Volume 6, Issue 2 Migration-Led Institutional Change in Urban Development and Planning Published by Cogitatio Press Rua Fialho de Almeida 14, 2º Esq., 1070-129 Lisbon Portugal Academic Editors Robert Barbarino (TU Dortmund University, Germany) Charlotte Räuchle (Free University Berlin, Germany) Wolfgang Scholz (TU Dortmund University, Germany) Available online at: www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning This issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY). Articles may be reproduced provided that credit is given to the original and Urban Planning is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. Table of Contents Migration-Led Institutional Change in Urban Development and Planning Robert Barbarino, Charlotte Räuchle and Wolfgang Scholz 1–6 Migrants’ Access to the Rental Housing Market in Germany: Housing Providers and Allocation Policies Heike Hanhörster and Isabel Ramos Lobato 7–18 Refugee Mobilities and Institutional Changes: Local Housing Policies and Segregation Processes in Greek Cities Pinelopi Vergou, Paschalis A. Arvanitidis and Panos Manetos 19–31 ‘It’s a Matter of Life or Death’: Jewish Migration and Dispossession of Palestinians in Acre Amandine Desille and Yara Sa’di-Ibraheem 32–42 Can Transnational Cooperation Support Municipalities to Address Challenges of Youth Migration? Elisabeth Gruber 43–55 The Role of the ‘Cities for Change’ in Protecting the Rights of Irregular Migrants in Spain Belén Fernández-Suárez and Keina Espiñeira 56–67 The Role of Institutional and Structural Differences for City-Specific Arrangements of Urban Migration Regimes Eva Bund and Ulrike Gerhard 68–79 Postmigrant Spatial Justice? The Case of ‘Berlin Develops New Neighbourhoods’ (BENN) Sylvana Jahre 80–90 Disrupting Dialogue? The Participatory Urban Governance of Far-Right Contestations in Cottbus Gala Nettelbladt 91–102 Migration-Related Conflicts as Drivers of Institutional Change? Maria Budnik, Katrin Grossmann and Christoph Hedtke 103–112 The Negotiation of Space and Rights: Suburban Planning with Diversity Zhixi Cecilia Zhuang 113–126 Table of Contents Promoting Interculture in Participation in German Urban Planning: Fields of Action for Institutional Change Sandra Huning, Christiane Droste and Katrin Gliemann 127–138 Urban Planning (ISSN: 2183–7635) 2021, Volume 6, Issue 2, Pages 1–6 DOI: 10.17645/up.v6i2.4356 Editorial Migration-Led Institutional Change in Urban Development and Planning Robert Barbarino 1,*, Charlotte Räuchle 2 and Wolfgang Scholz 1 1 School of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University, 44227 Dortmund, Germany; E-Mails: [email protected] (R.B.), [email protected] (W.S.) 2 Institute of Geographical Science, Department of Earth Science, Free University Berlin, 12249 Berlin, Germany; E-Mail: [email protected] * Corresponding author Submitted: 9 April 2021 | Published: 27 April 2021 Abstract The migration-city-nexus has become central in migration and urban studies alike. This ‘local turn’ has not only initiated a rethinking of the local level as an independent level of migration policy-making but also broadened the discourse on how migration processes actually change cities. Therefore, the thematic issue at hand seeks to understand how migration-led development processes in cities promote and shape institutional change, and which actors transform policies, structures, and discourses on migration in different settings. It questions how migration-related issues in urban development are being handled and transformed by local state and civil society actors. With 11 empirical articles on local negotiations of migration in urban development in different settings, this thematic issue applies an institutional change perspective on local migration policy-making to contribute to a broader understanding of migration-led development in both urban and migration studies. When it comes to clearly capturing migration-led institutional change in urban development and plan- ning, the contributions demonstrate great heterogeneity. They reveal that research on migration-led institutional change still has many biases and is very dependent on theoretical perspectives, positionalities of researchers, and the local context of the case studies. Keywords institutional change; migration; urban development; urban governance Issue This editorial is part of the issue “Migration-Led Institutional Change in Urban Development and Planning” edited by Robert Barbarino (TU Dortmund University, Germany), Charlotte Räuchle (Free University Berlin, Germany) and Wolfgang Scholz (TU Dortmund University, Germany). © 2021 by the authors; licensee Cogitatio (Lisbon, Portugal). This editorial is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribu- tion 4.0 International License (CC BY). 1. Introduction With the ‘local turn,’ cities have become central in migration and urban studies, and a broad range of Highly dynamic migration movements put the role of concepts and empirical studies deal with the migration- cities in migration policy-making around the globe on city-nexus. It led to a rethinking of the local level the agenda and question how migration-related issues in as an independent level of policy-making rather than urban development are being handled by local govern- merely implementing national policies, illustrating the ment agencies, street-level bureaucrats, migrant organ- heterogeneity of the local level (see e.g., Caponio, isations, and Social Movements. This thematic issue Scholten, & Zapata-Barrero, 2018; Dekker, Emilsson, seeks to understand how migration-led development Krieger, & Scholten, 2015; Jørgensen, 2012; Scholten, processes in cities promote and shape institutional 2016). Frequently, these studies address topics like change at a local level, and which actors transform poli- migrants’ access to local labour markets, refugee recep- cies, structures, and discourses on migration in urban tion and asylum, the socio-spatial organisation of integra- development in different contexts. tion policy-making, as well as migrant self-representation Urban Planning, 2021, Volume 6, Issue 2, Pages 1–6 1 in the urban society, to name just a few. However, the inequality. It is not only a general housing shortage extent to which ‘migration’ leads to institutional change which restricts migrants’ access to housing in Germany; at the urban scale remains an open question, even if first these institutional housing providers also play a key studies reveal migration-induced change, e.g., in urban role. In contrast to other European countries, discrimina- administrations (see e.g., Lang, 2020). tion remains a taboo in Germany, making it even more To frame ‘institutional change,’ this thematic issue difficult to enter into a meaningful dialogue on how suggests, first, to refer to new institutionalism from politi- migration-led change in the sense of promoting equal cal sciences. This perspective allows defining institutions opportunities can be achieved in the housing market. in the sense of policies, laws, or regulations as formal In a similar vein, Vergou, Arvanitidis, and Manetos political institutions. Institutional change occurs not only (2021) have been exploring refugees’ access to housing, on different governance scales but is also locally embed- the corresponding policy responses, and the effects on ded in specific historical and geographical contexts (Hu socio-spatial segregation, by comparing three small and & Yang, 2019; Sorensen, 2011; Streeck & Thelen, 2005, medium-sized Greek cities. The authors shed light on the p. 9). Second, notions of sociological institutionalism interplay between municipalities and various local ini- help to explain governance in the context of urban plan- tiatives and NGOs in refugee allocation, and their influ- ning, referring to institutions in a broader sense as for- ence on institutional change. As a result of the decen- mal rules, and informal norms and practices, which both tralisation of refugee accommodation and the new reg- structure actions and form routines (González & Healey, ulatory powers of municipalities in this context, the 2005, p. 2058; Healey, 1999, 2007). Both approaches municipalities have developed different ways of handling locate transformation and local governance innovation refugee accommodation. between state and civil society actors. Thus, institutional Desille and Sa’di-Ibraheem (2021) study the actors, change, as this thematic issue understands it, develops in discourses, and administrative practices used to increase the gaps between established policies or rules and their the current mobilities of people (Jewish immigrants, interpretation and enforcement (Mahoney & Thelen, investors, tourist visitors, and evicted residents) and 2010, p. 14). Considering this, the contested implementa- explore their impact on the continuity of the settler- tion of new routines in informal norms and practices, or colonial regime in pre-1948 Palestinian urban spaces formal political institutions (like policies, laws, and regu- which became part of Israel. The city of Acre/Akkon, lations) enables institutional change. receiving the vast majority of new Jewish immigrant fam- Therefore, this thematic issue builds on a broader ilies in the last decades,