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Migrants and City-Making

By Ayse Çaglar

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Migrants and City-Making

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In Migrants and City-Making Ay¿e Çälar 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-Çälar and Glick Schiller challenge common assumptions that migrants exist on society's periphery, threaten social cohesion, and require integration. Instead Çälar 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 Çälar 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, Çälar 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
296
Release Date:
2018-09-10
Publication Date:
2018-09-10
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0822370565
ISBN13:
9780822370567
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[email protected]
Weight:
432 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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