Locating Migration: Rescaling Cities and Migrants
"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 Migrationis a must-read for anyone interested in the contemporary global city."—Sophie Watson, Open University"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."—Elizabeth L. Sweet,Journal of Planning Education and Research(March 2014)"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"In bringing together the often separated perspectives of migration and urban studies,Locating Migrationchallenges 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."—Josh DeWind, Director, Migration Program, Social Science Research Council