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Book SynopsisAyşe Çağlar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the lived experiences of migrants in three cities struggling to regain their former standing, showing how they live and work in their new cities in ways that require them to negotiate the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global institutions.
Trade Review"Ayse Calgar and Nina Glick Schiller make a timely and compelling case for migrants as 'city-makers.' Departing from commonly portrayed dichotomies between migrants and non-migrants, they situate, contextualize, and embed them into complex “multi-scalar” processes of urban regeneration. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- G. R. Innes * Choice *
"This fantastic book is a result of committed long-term research by Çaglar and Glick Schiller on migration and the regeneration of cities." -- Susanne Urban * Urban Studies *
"A theoretically rich book that immerses us in the relationship between migration and localities that are not urban centers of global power. . . .
Migrants and City-Making has a theoretically rich and engaging methodology, which will be useful for anyone teaching courses on transnational migration, urban studies, urban anthropology or urban sociology." -- Hulya Dogan * City & Society *
"Its programmatic and didactic approach will make Migrants and City-Making a useful teaching tool for students of migration and urban theory. The argumentation is bold and restated at multiple points in the book."
-- Madeleine Reeves * Laboratorium *
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Immigrants and City-Making is a thought-provoking and ambitious study that provides a compelling appraisal of migration, place making, and urban theory. ... A unique, innovative, and valuable contribution to our comparative understanding of migration, cities, and the manifestations of growing economic inequality on a global scale." -- Steven Gold * American Journal of Sociology *
"Migrants and City-Making is a thought-provoking and ambitious study that provides a compelling appraisal of migration, place making, and urban theory…. The book is a unique, innovative, and valuable contribution to our comparative understanding of migration, cities, and the manifestations of growing economic inequality on a global scale.” -- Steven Gold * American Journal of Sociology *
“The book provides fascinating and important insight into the experiences, challenges, and agency of migrants and nonmigrants in disempowered cities. . . . The book will particularly interest scholars and researchers in those fields and would serve as an excellent introduction to some key debates and developments for anthropologists and sociologists beginning to think about the longer-term effects of urban regeneration efforts and how to study them.” -- Sara Jean Tomczuk * Contemporary Sociology *
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Migrants and City-Making] challenges disciplinary divisions between migration studies and urban studies which limit our understanding of global processes of city-making.... I highly recommend this book especially for those who work at the intersections of migration and urban studies and want to go beyond the national and ethnic lens.” -- Pinar Ensari * Urban Geography *
Table of ContentsList 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
