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Changing communities : stories of migration, displacement and solidarities /
Issues of displacement and dispossession have become defining characteristics of a globalised 21st century. People are moving within and across national borders, whether displaced, relocated or moving in search of better livelihoods. This book brings theoretical understandings of migration and displ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- CHANGING COMMUNITIES
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Stories of migration, displacement, community resistance and solidarity
- Research- and experience-based evidence
- The chapters that follow
- 2. Explaining migration and displacement
- Do definitions matter?
- Different theoretical approaches
- World cities, global cities and women's migration patterns
- Competing migration theories
- Migration, diasporas and cultural change
- Less forced diasporas?
- Contemporary versions of forcible displacements?
- Migrants and their communities
- 3. Responses to being displaced by violence
- Defining displacement as a result of violence
- British communities' own experiences of displacement as a result of violence
- Refugee communities' responses to new arrivals
- In summary
- 4. Community responses to displacement as a result of (re)development
- Development and redevelopment: definitions and approaches
- Responses to displacement: examples from India
- Examples from Brazil
- Responses in urban redevelopment contexts
- Community responses to redevelopment in contemporary London
- Reflecting on community-based responses to (re)development more generally
- 5. Responses to displacement via market forces more generally
- Community-based resistance in the recent past
- More recent times
- Supporting people in their attempts to avoid displacement and dispossession
- Community resistance campaigns
- From 'perfect storm' to 'perfect tsunami'?
- Learning from experience
- Wider theoretical implications? Reflecting on varying experiences
- 6. Choices and constraints
- Free will or determinism?
- Agency versus structure?
- Resisting being kept in one's place?
- Agency and/or structure and displacement
- Public policies and choices too?
- Popular education for social transformation.
- 7. The slippery concept of 'community', both locally and transnationally
- Differing definitions and varying usages
- Starting from Raymond Williams' approach
- Community and public policy
- Community formation
- and re-formation
- in response to displacement and dispossession
- How have these outcomes been affected by public policies?
- What about market forces?
- 'Communities' and processes of change: widening definitions and approaches?
- 8. Public policies to promote community cohesion
- Confusing concepts
- What do policy-makers have in mind, in terms of promoting 'community cohesion'?
- Towards more 'cohesive communities'?
- Preventing violent extremism and/or reinforcing neoliberalism?
- Towards more promising practices?
- In summary
- 9. Moving on?
- Developing common understandings of communities and change in the global context
- Linking the personal and the political
- Sharing understandings
- convincingly?
- Developing alliances across differences of organisational culture and style
- Community arts and social change
- References
- Index.