The article aims to foster a conceptual discussion about the potentials and pitfalls that emerge when the two concepts ‘migration regime’ and ‘urban regime’ are brought together. Recent developments in the field of migration studies have led to the regime concept becoming an increasingly popular strategy. Terms like ‘local migration regime’ or ‘urban migration regime’ have enjoyed growing popularity due to an expanded interest in the intersection of localities, regulation techniques and immigration. Within this debate, the ‘urban regimes’ concept has also gained increased attention.This paper argues that these are two essentially different types of regime analysis, both of which have potentials and problems. Making use of both of them in the field of migration studies requires conceptual clarity and preciseness, and will likely lead to very different findings. A synthesis of the two concepts is, therefore, not achievable, yet a careful and reflected use of them can provide new impulses both for empirical research and theory.

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“城市政权”和“移民政权”：矛盾、联系和潜力

本文旨在促进对“迁移制度”和“城市制度”这两个概念结合在一起时出现的潜力和陷阱的概念性讨论。移民研究领域的最新发展导致政权概念成为越来越流行的策略。由于人们对地方、监管技术和移民的交叉点越来越感兴趣，“本地移民制度”或“城市移民制度”等术语越来越受欢迎。在这场争论中，“城市政权”的概念也越来越受到关注。本文认为，这是两种本质上不同的政权分析类型，两者都有潜力和问题。在移民研究领域同时使用它们需要概念清晰和精确，并且可能会导致非常不同的发现。因此，这两个概念的综合是不可能实现的，但是对它们的仔细和反思的使用可以为实证研究和理论提供新的推动力。