Locating migration
Subtitle: rescaling cities and migrants
By: edited by Nina Glick Schiller and Ayşe Çağlar
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780801449529; 9780801476877
Subjects: Social aspects; Cities and towns; Urban policy; Emigration and immigration; Transnationalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : migrants and cities / Ayşe Çağlar and Nina Glick Schiller; title: The urban question and the scale question : some conceptual clarification / Neil Brenner; title: The socioterritoriality of cities : a framework for understanding the incorporation of migrants in urban labor markets / Michael Samers; title: Locality and globality : building a comparative analytical framework in migration and urban studies / Nina Glick Schiller and Ayşe Çağlar; title: Scalar positioning and immigrant organizations : Asian Indians and the dynamics of place / Caroline B. Brettell; title: Cities and the social construction of hot spots : rescaling, Ghanaian migrants, and the fragmentation of urban spaces / Rijk van Dijk; title: Transnational migration and rescaling processes : the incorporation of migrant labor / Ruba Salih and Bruno Riccio; title: The campaign for new immigrants in urban regeneration : imagining possibilities and confronting realities / Judith Goode; title: Rescaling processes in two "global" cities : festive events as pathways of migrant incorporation / Monika Salzbrunn; title: Downscaled cities and migrant pathways : locality and agency without an ethnic lens / Nina Glick Schiller and Ayşe Çağlar; title: Remaking locality : uneven globalization and transmigrants' unequal incorporation / Bela Feldman-Bianco; title: Afterword : an ethnographic view of size, scale, and locality / Gunther Schlee.