{"product_id":"locating-migration-9780801476877","title":"Locating Migration","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse Çaglar, along with a stellar group of contributing authors, examine the relationship between migrants and cities in a time of massive urban restructuring. They find that locality matters in migration research and migrants matter in the reconfiguration of contemporary cities. This book provides a new approach to the study of migrant settlement and transnational connection in which cities rather than nation-states, ethnic groups, or transnational communities serve as the starting point for comparative analysis. Neither negating nor privileging the nation-state, Locating Migration provides ethnographic insights into the various ways in which migrants and specific cities together mutually constitute and contest the local, national, and global. Cities are approached not as containers but as fluid and historically differentiated analytical entry points. Chapters explore migrants'' relationship to the neoliberal rebranding, redevelopment, and resca\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLocating Migration: Rescaling Cities and Migrants\u003c\/i\u003eis an attempt to examine migrants as integral to cities through analyses of scale, space, and temporal phenomena in different places. The editors want tosteer the study of migrants away froma narrow focus that has isolated ethnic communities and theorize the important role that migrants have had in shaping and being shaped by cities and the scale issues related to cities.. This book would be useful for anyone teaching courses in international planning, immigration, and planning, and planning history and theory.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Elizabeth L. Sweet * Journal of Planning Education and Research *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction: Migrants and Cities\u003cbr\u003e by Ayse Caglar and Nina Glick SchillerPart I: Migration and Cities: Reframing the Topic2. The Urban Question and the Scale Question: Some Conceptual Clarifications\u003cbr\u003e by Neil Brenner3. The Socioterritoriality of Cities: A Framework for Understanding the\u003cbr\u003e Incorporation of Migrants in Urban Labor Markets\u003cbr\u003e by Michael Samers4. Locality and Globality: Building a Comparative Analytical Framework in Migration and Urban Studies\u003cbr\u003e by Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse CaglarPart II: Migrants as Scale Makers: Rescaling Urban Neighborhoods,\u003cbr\u003e Cities, and Their Regions5. Scalar Positioning and Immigrant Organizations: Asian Indians and the Dynamics of Place\u003cbr\u003e by Caroline B. Brettell6. Cities and the Social Construction of Hot Spots: Rescaling, Ghanaian Migrants, and the Fragmentation of Urban Spaces\u003cbr\u003e by Rijk van Dijk7. Transnational Migration and Rescaling Processes: The Incorporation of Migrant Labor\u003cbr\u003e by Ruba Salih and Bruno Riccio8. The Campaign for New Immigrants in Urban Regeneration: Imagining Possibilities and Confronting Realities\u003cbr\u003e by Judith Goode9. Rescaling Processes in Two \"Global\" Cities: Festive Events as Pathways of Migrant Incorporation\u003cbr\u003e by Monika Salzbrunn10. Downscaled Cities and Migrant Pathways: Locality and Agency without an Ethnic Lens\u003cbr\u003e by Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse Caglar11. Remaking Locality: Uneven Globalization and Transmigrants' Unequal Incorporation\u003cbr\u003e by Bela Feldman-Bianco12. Afterword: An Ethnographic View of Size, Scale, and Locality \u003cbr\u003e by Gunther SchleeBibliography\u003cbr\u003e Biographical Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405154492759,"sku":"9780801476877","price":24.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801476877.jpg?v=1730488902","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/locating-migration-9780801476877","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}