Welcoming Cities: How newcomers shape urban policy making (book launch)
This event is hybrid: join us in-person at Kellogg College or online (Zoom)
A truly welcoming and inclusive city is not just an aspiration—it is essential to the future of our increasingly diverse urban societies. Yet too often, policy and practice lack the theoretical and research foundations needed for meaningful and effective implementation.

Welcoming Cities is a book which bridges this gap, offering an interdisciplinary framework grounded in empirical research and case studies from 12 UK cities and international partners. Engaging with key governance challenges, it explores how cities define and implement welcoming policies across multiple sectors.

Moving beyond critique, this book offers a constructive and action-oriented approach to integration and social cohesion. Sitting at the crossroads of academic research and policy and practice, this panel also aims to bridge this gap, drawing together insights from across the seminar series and engaging the key questions raised by Welcoming Cities.

This seminar is hybrid. Join us in person at The Hub, Kellogg College, or participate online via Zoom by registering here: zoom.us/meeting/register/evx9TAwlTFajxRVSGF_H-w
Date: 4 December 2025, 15:45
Venue: Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details: The Hub
Speakers: Sunder Katwala (Director, British Future), Jacqui Broadhead (COMPAS, University of Oxford), Nihad El-Kayed (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Fuad Mohammed (Ashley Community Housing)
Organising department: Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
Organisers: Nihad El-Kayed (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Jacqui Broadhead (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: info@compas.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Welcoming Cities: Arrival Infrastructure
Booking required?: Recommended
Booking url: https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/event/welcoming-cities-arrival-infrastructure
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Nathan Grassi