Title & Author:

Locating migration : rescaling cities and migrants / edited by Nina Glick Schiller and Ayşe Çağlar.

Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.

Description:

viii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-266) and index.
Introduction : migrants and cities / Ayşe Çağlar and Nina Glick Schiller -- The urban question and the scale question : some conceptual clarification / Neil Brenner -- The socioterritoriality of cities : a framework for understanding the incorporation of migrants in urban labor markets / Michael Samers -- Locality and globality : building a comparative analytical framework in migration and urban studies / Nina Glick Schiller and Ayşe Çağlar -- Scalar positioning and immigrant organizations : Asian Indians and the dynamics of place / Caroline B. Brettell -- Cities and the social construction of hot spots : rescaling, Ghanaian migrants, and the fragmentation of urban spaces / Rijk van Dijk -- Transnational migration and rescaling processes : the incorporation of migrant labor / Ruba Salih and Bruno Riccio -- The campaign for new immigrants in urban regeneration : imagining possibilities and confronting realities / Judith Goode -- Rescaling processes in two "global" cities : festive events as pathways of migrant incorporation / Monika Salzbrunn -- Downscaled cities and migrant pathways : locality and agency without an ethnic lens / Nina Glick Schiller and Ayşe Çağlar -- Remaking locality : uneven globalization and transmigrants' unequal incorporation / Bela Feldman-Bianco -- Afterword : an ethnographic view of size, scale, and locality / Gunther Schlee.

Summary:

For the most part, policy discussions of immigrants and the city have been framed by calls for integration and social cohesion (especially in Europe), or they focus on problem areas such as criminality, drugs, poverty, and violence. Migration scholars, meanwhile--whether they are debating assimilation, integration, transnationalism, or diversity--seldom move beyond the framework established by policymakers. Within the migration literature there are many studies of migration to cities and the life of migrants in cities but very little about the relationship of migrants and cities, with cities figuring merely as containers providing spaces in which migrants settle and make a living. This is a book for those concerned with migration as well as with cities.

ISBN:

9780801449529 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0801449529 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780801476877 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0801476879 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Emigration and immigration Social aspects.
Cities and towns Social aspects.
Urban policy Social aspects.
Transnationalism Social aspects.
Émigration et immigration Aspect social.
Villes Aspect social.
Politique urbaine Aspect social.
Transnationalisme Aspect social.
Migration
Stadtentwicklung
Sozialer Wandel
Migratie (demografie)
Immigratie.
Steden.
Sociale aspecten.
Transnationalism.
Migration sociala aspekter.
Städer sociala aspekter.
Urban politik sociala aspekter.
Internationalisering sociala aspekter.

Added entries:

Schiller, Nina Glick.
Simsek-Caglar, Ayse.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 270174
Call No.: BIB 202856
Status: Available