Through an analysis of migrant incorporation in Rome and Rabat, this article investigates the theoretical, methodological and policy consequences of comparing across the fault lines around which urban migration research is conventionally structured. It critically brings into conversation the “local turn” in migration policy research with debates around comparative urbanism, and discusses how the Mediterranean region and a reconsideration of temporal frames in migration studies can offer a generative framework for comparing cities across the Global “North” and “South.” The comparative analysis considers how, inter alia, legacies of internal mobility, non-state service provision and divergent public discourses about “diversity” illuminate the different ways in which contemporary migration has been negotiated in the two cities. In doing so, the article challenges assumptions about policy path dependency or the smooth transfer of “best practices” and instead points to the possibility of learning from any city, be it Rome or Rabat.

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我们可以比较多远？移民研究、比较都市主义和跨地中海视角的潜力

通过对罗马和拉巴特的移民融入的分析，本文研究了跨越断层线进行比较的理论、方法和政策后果，城市移民研究通常围绕这些断层线进行构建。它批判性地将移民政策研究中的“地方转向”与围绕比较城市主义的辩论进行了对话，并讨论了地中海地区和移民研究中对时间框架的重新考虑如何为比较全球“北方”和“南。” 除其他外，比较分析考虑了内部流动的遗产、非国家服务提供和关于“多样性”的不同公共话语如何阐明当代移民在两个城市谈判的不同方式。在这样做，