Locating Migration : : Rescaling Cities and Migrants /

Locating Migration : : Rescaling Cities and Migrants / / ed. by Ayse Çağlar, Nina Glick Schiller.

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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 con...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Brenner, Neil,
Brettell, Caroline B.,
Dijk, Rijk van,
Feldman-Bianco, Bela,
Goode, Judith,
Riccio, Bruno,
Salih, Ruba,
Salzbrunn, Monika,
Samers, Michael,
Schiller, Nina Glick,
Schlee, Günther,
Çağlar, Ayşe,
HerausgeberIn:
Glick Schiller, Nina,
Çağlar, Ayse,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 10 halftones, 2 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: Migrants and Cities
  • Part I: Migration and Cities: Reframing the Topic
  • 2. The Urban Question and the Scale Question: Some Conceptual Clarifications
  • 3. The Socioterritoriality of Cities: A Framework for Understanding the Incorporation of Migrants in Urban Labor Markets
  • 4. Locality and Globality: Building a Comparative Analytical Framework in Migration and Urban Studies
  • 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
  • 6. Cities and the Social Construction of Hot Spots: Rescaling, Ghanaian Migrants, and the Fragmentation of Urban Spaces
  • 7. Transnational Migration and Rescaling Processes: The Incorporation of Migrant Labor
  • 8. The Campaign for New Immigrants in Urban Regeneration: Imagining Possibilities and Confronting Realities
  • 9. Rescaling Processes in Two "Global" Cities: Festive Events as Pathways of Migrant Incorporation
  • 10. Downscaled Cities and Migrant Pathways: Locality and Agency without an Ethnic Lens
  • 11. Remaking Locality: Uneven Globalization and Transmigrants' Unequal Incorporation
  • 12. Afterword: An Ethnographic View of Size, Scale, and Locality
  • Bibliography
  • Biographical Notes
  • Index

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