Migrants and City-Making - Ayse Çaglar, Nina Glick Schiller

Migrants and City-Making

Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration
Buch | Hardcover
296 Seiten
2018
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-7044-4 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
Ayşe Çağlar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the lived experiences of migrants in three cities struggling to regain their former standing, showing how they live and work in their new cities in ways that require them to negotiate the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global institutions.
In Migrants and City-Making Ayşe Çağlar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the participation of migrants in the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global institutions. Grounding their work in comparative ethnographies of three cities struggling to regain their former standing—Mardin, Turkey; Manchester, New Hampshire; and Halle/Saale, Germany—Çağlar and Glick Schiller challenge common assumptions that migrants exist on society’s periphery, threaten social cohesion, and require integration. Instead Çağlar and Glick Schiller explore their multifaceted role as city-makers, including their relationships to municipal officials, urban developers, political leaders, business owners, community organizers, and social justice movements. In each city Çağlar and Glick Schiller met with migrants from around the world; attended cultural events, meetings, and religious services; and patronized migrant-owned businesses, allowing them to gain insights into the ways in which migrants build social relationships with non-migrants and participate in urban restoration and development. In exploring the changing historical contingencies within which migrants live and work, Çağlar and Glick Schiller highlight how city-making invariably involves engaging with the far-reaching forces that dispossess people of their land, jobs, resources, neighborhoods, and hope. 

Ayşe Çağlar is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna and coeditor of Locating Migration: Rescaling Cities and Migrants. Nina Glick Schiller is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She is coauthor of Georges Woke Up Laughing: Long-Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home, also published by Duke University Press, and most recently, coeditor of Whose Cosmopolitanism? Critical Perspectives, Relationalities, and Discontents.

List of Illustrations  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. Multiscalar City-Making and Emplacement: Processes, Concepts, and Methods  1
1. Introducing Three Cities: Similarities despite Difference  33
2. Welcoming Narratives: Small Migrant Businesses within Multiscalar Restructuring  95
3. They Are Us: Urban Sociabillites with Multiscalar Power  121
4. Social Citizenship of the Dispossessed: Embracing Global Christianity  147
5. "Searching Its Future in Its Past": The Multiscalar Emplacement of Returnees  177
Conclusion. Time, Space, and Agency  209
Notes  227
References  239
Index  275

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 17 illustrations
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 567 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8223-7044-1 / 0822370441
ISBN-13 978-0-8223-7044-4 / 9780822370444
Zustand Neuware
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
Schweden : Ambiguitäten verhandeln - Tolerieren als soziale und …

von Heidrun Alzheimer; Sabine Doering-Manteuffel; Daniel Drascek …

Buch | Softcover (2023)
Brill Schöningh (Verlag)
49,90