Locating Migration: Rescaling Cities and Migrants - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801476879 ISBN 13: 9780801476877

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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.

Contributors: Neil Brenner, New York University; Caroline B. Brettell, Southern Methodist University; Ayse Çaglar, Central European University and Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen; Bela Feldman-Bianco, State University of Campinas; Nina Glick Schiller, University of Manchester; Judith Goode, Temple University; Bruno Riccio, University of Bologna; Ruba Salih, University of Exeter; Monika Salzbrunn, Lausanne University and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sceinces Sociales, Paris; Michael Samers, University of Kentucky; Gunther Schlee, Max Planck Institute for the Social Anthropology, Halle; Rijk van Dijk, Leiden University

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801476879
• ISBN 13: 9780801476877
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Glick Schiller Nina, Çağlar Ayse