Locating migration : rescaling cities and migrants / edited by Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse Caglar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schiller, Nina Glick.

Çağlar, Ayşe.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Cities and towns--Social aspects.

Cities and towns.

Urban policy--Social aspects.

Urban policy.

Transnationalism--Social aspects.

Transnationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse Çaglar, along with a stellar group of contributing authors, examine the relationship between migrants and cities in a time of massive urban restructuring. They find that locality matters in migration research and migrants matter in the reconfiguration of contemporary cities. This book provides a new approach to the study of migrant settlement and transnational connection in which cities rather than nation-states, ethnic groups, or transnational communities serve as the starting point for comparative analysis. Neither negating nor privileging the nation-state, Locating Migration provides ethnographic insights into the various ways in which migrants and specific cities together mutually constitute and contest the local, national, and global. Cities are approached not as containers but as fluid and historically differentiated analytical entry points. Chapters explore migrants' relationship to the neoliberal rebranding, redevelopment, and rescaling of down-and-out, aspiring, and global cities in the United States and Europe. The various chapters document the pathways of incorporation and transnational connection of migrants from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. Migrants are approached not as a homogenous category but in terms of their range of experiences of class, racialization, gender, history, politics, and religion. Setting aside the migrant/native divide that haunts most migration studies, the authors of this book view migrants as residents of cities and actors within them, understanding that to be a resident of a city is to live within, contribute to, and contest globe-spanning processes that shape urban economy, politics, and culture.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Migrants and Cities / Çağlar, Ayşe / Schiller, Nina Glick

Part I: Migration and Cities: Reframing the Topic

2. The Urban Question and the Scale Question: Some Conceptual Clarifications / Brenner, Neil

3. The Socioterritoriality of Cities: A Framework for Understanding the Incorporation of Migrants in Urban Labor Markets / Samers, Michael

4. Locality and Globality: Building a Comparative Analytical Framework in Migration and Urban Studies / Schiller, Nina Glick / Çağlar, Ayşe

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 / Brettell, Caroline B.

6. Cities and the Social Construction of Hot Spots: Rescaling, Ghanaian Migrants, and the Fragmentation of Urban Spaces / Dijk, Rijk van

7. Transnational Migration and Rescaling Processes: The Incorporation of Migrant Labor / Salih, Ruba / Riccio, Bruno

8. The Campaign for New Immigrants in Urban Regeneration: Imagining Possibilities and Confronting Realities / Goode, Judith

9. Rescaling Processes in Two "Global" Cities: Festive Events as Pathways of Migrant Incorporation / Salzbrunn, Monika

10. Downscaled Cities and Migrant Pathways: Locality and Agency without an Ethnic Lens / Schiller, Nina Glick / Çağlar, Ayşe

11. Remaking Locality: Uneven Globalization and Transmigrants' Unequal Incorporation / Feldman-Bianco, Bela

12. Afterword: An Ethnographic View of Size, Scale, and Locality / Schlee, Günther

Bibliography

Biographical Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801460340

0801460344

OCLC:

762224830