Migrants and City-Making
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-7056-7 (ISBN)
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 | 27.08.2018 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 17 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 431 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker) |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8223-7056-5 / 0822370565 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-7056-7 / 9780822370567 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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