Locating Migration: Rescaling Cities and Migrants

Published by Cornell University Press 2011

Locating Migration

Rescaling Cities and Migrants

Edited by: Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse Çağlar

https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801460340

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About this book

This books examines the relationship between migrants and cities in a time of massive urban restructuring, finding that locality matters in migration research and migrants matter in the reconfiguration of contemporary cities.

Author / Editor information

Nina Glick Schiller is Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at the University of Manchester. She is coauthor of Nations Unbound and Georges Woke up Laughing and founding editor of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. Ayse Çağlar is Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University and a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.

Reviews

Sophie Watson, Open University:

This excellent collection of essays, edited by two of the leading scholars in the field of migration, cities, and transnationality, challenges conventional orthodoxies to argue that migrants should be seen as city residents who shape local cultures, politics, and economies in significant ways. Through ethnographies of specific sites, the essays in this volume provide illuminating insights into the different lived experiences of migrants in cities across the world. Locating Migration is a must-read for anyone interested in the contemporary global city.

Leo R. Chavez, author of The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation:

Locating Migration is an excellent collective work showing how the particularities of cities collide with the dreams and aspirations of international migrants to shape varying paths to integration. It offers a wealth of specific city comparisons and the theoretical scaffolding to get the most traction out of those comparisons. A major accomplishment!

Josh DeWind, Director, Migration Program, Social Science Research Council:

In bringing together the often separated perspectives of migration and urban studies, Locating Migration challenges current paradigms and introduces an insightful comparative framework with which to analyze mutually transformative relations between the livelihoods of transnational migrants and the repositioning of cities of varying scales within a competitive global hierarchy. The authors' diverse anthropological and geographical approaches innovatively identify and interpret linkages between local and global social dynamics that spatially restructure urban life. The book provides innovative understandings of cities as the ever changing contexts for the lives of migrants.

Elizabeth L. Sweet:

Locating Migration: Rescaling Cities and Migrantsis an attempt to examine migrants as integral to cities through analyses of scale, space, and temporal phenomena in different places. The editors want tosteer the study of migrants away froma narrow focus that has isolated ethnic communities and theorize the important role that migrants have had in shaping and being shaped by cities and the scale issues related to cities.. This book would be useful for anyone teaching courses in international planning, immigration, and planning, and planning history and theory.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
1. Introduction: Migrants and Cities Ayşe Çağlar and Nina Glick Schiller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Migration and Cities: Reframing the Topic
2. The Urban Question and the Scale Question: Some Conceptual Clarifications Neil Brenner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3. The Socioterritoriality of Cities: A Framework for Understanding the Incorporation of Migrants in Urban Labor Markets Michael Samers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
4. Locality and Globality: Building a Comparative Analytical Framework in Migration and Urban Studies Nina Glick Schiller and Ayşe Çağlar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
Part II: Migrants as Scale Makers: Rescaling Urban Neighborhoods, Cities, and Their Regions
5. Scalar Positioning and Immigrant Organizations: Asian Indians and the Dynamics of Place Caroline B. Brettell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
6. Cities and the Social Construction of Hot Spots: Rescaling, Ghanaian Migrants, and the Fragmentation of Urban Spaces Rijk van Dijk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
7. Transnational Migration and Rescaling Processes: The Incorporation of Migrant Labor Ruba Salih and Bruno Riccio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
8. The Campaign for New Immigrants in Urban Regeneration: Imagining Possibilities and Confronting Realities Judith Goode Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
9. Rescaling Processes in Two “Global” Cities: Festive Events as Pathways of Migrant Incorporation Monika Salzbrunn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
10. Downscaled Cities and Migrant Pathways: Locality and Agency without an Ethnic Lens Nina Glick Schiller and Ayşe Çağlar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
11. Remaking Locality: Uneven Globalization and Transmigrants’ Unequal Incorporation Bela Feldman-Bianco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
12. Afterword: An Ethnographic View of Size, Scale, and Locality Günther Schlee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Biographical Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 296
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- Other: 10 halftones, 2 tables
Keywords: transnationality; migration; migrant settlement; migration research

eBook

Published: February 15, 2011
ISBN: 9780801460340