Urban citizenship revisited (15.-16.09.2011, Berlin und Tel Aviv)

International symposium: This international symposium was part of an ongoing cooperation between the Dept. for Urban- and Regional Sociology at HU Berlin, Tel Aviv University, Bar Ilan University and Ben Gurion University. Since 2009, the cooperation has included several individual exchanges as well as two international woskhops: The symposium on 'Urban Citizenship Revisited. Rights, Recognition and Distribution in Berlin & Tel Aviv' took place at HU Berlin on September 15/16, 2011; the symposium on 'Housing as a Human Right: Berlin & Tel Aviv' took place at Tel Aviv University on December 20, 2012. A joint special issue on 'Urban Citizenship and the Right to the City. The Fragmentation of Claims' was published in IJURR 39.4 in fall 2015. The cooperation’s activities focus on questions of access to rights and recognition at the urban scale in variegated contexts.