Leah Koskimaki

Senior lecturer in the Institute for Social Development

University of Western Cape

Leah Koskimaki is a senior lecturer in the Institute for Social Development at the University of Western Cape. Leah is also the coordinator of the Migration and Mobilities UWC collaborative group that studies the legal and human rights of refugees and migrants, migration and urbanisation, the politics of xenophobia, and migration and decolonisation.

Programme speaker

02:00 p.m. CEST

04:30 p.m. CEST

Symposium

The future of cities and migration: inclusion of precarious migrants and refugees

This symposium explores the role of cities in the governance of migration, focusing on their key function related to the social inclusion, political participation, and labour market integration of precarious migrants and refugees.

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