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Join us for our first Boston Urban Salon speaker event featuring Dr. René Kreichauf, an Assistant Professor of Urban Studies & Planning at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels). Professor Kreichauf will analyze how international and internal forms of displacement overlap and reproduce each other with urban processes through displaced migrants in New York City and Berlin as case studies. Focusing on urban governance structures and their purposes, this presentation reveals the economic logic of displacement—how multiple urban actors profit from constantly displacing migrants, the racialization processes employed to produce legitimate displacement, and forms of solidarity and engagement in support of the displaced populations. Dr. Kreichauf also aims to further our understanding of displacement: one that is related to (racial) capitalist value regimes, the position of classed and racialized populations within these regimes, and the broader structures of racial exclusion and marginalization in cities.