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Locating migration : rescaling cities and migrants /

For the most part, policy discussions of immigrants and the city have been framed by calls for integration and social cohesion (especially in Europe), or they focus on problem areas such as criminality, drugs, poverty, and violence. Migration scholars, meanwhile--whether they are debating assimilati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schiller, Nina Glick (Editor ), Simsek-Caglar, Ayse (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : migrants and cities / Ayşe Çağlar and Nina Glick Schiller
  • The urban question and the scale question : some conceptual clarification / Neil Brenner
  • The socioterritoriality of cities : a framework for understanding the incorporation of migrants in urban labor markets / Michael Samers
  • Locality and globality : building a comparative analytical framework in migration and urban studies / Nina Glick Schiller and Ayşe Çağlar
  • Scalar positioning and immigrant organizations : Asian Indians and the dynamics of place / Caroline B. Brettell
  • Cities and the social construction of hot spots : rescaling, Ghanaian migrants, and the fragmentation of urban spaces / Rijk van Dijk
  • Transnational migration and rescaling processes : the incorporation of migrant labor / Ruba Salih and Bruno Riccio
  • The campaign for new immigrants in urban regeneration : imagining possibilities and confronting realities / Judith Goode
  • Rescaling processes in two "global" cities : festive events as pathways of migrant incorporation / Monika Salzbrunn
  • Downscaled cities and migrant pathways : locality and agency without an ethnic lens / Nina Glick Schiller and Ayşe Çağlar
  • Remaking locality : uneven globalization and transmigrants' unequal incorporation / Bela Feldman-Bianco
  • Afterword : an ethnographic view of size, scale, and locality / Gunther Schlee.