{"product_id":"migrants-and-citymaking-9780822370567","title":"Migrants and CityMaking","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAyşe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"A theoretically rich book that immerses us in the relationship between migration and localities that are not urban centers of global power. . . . \u003ci\u003eMigrants and City-Making\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u0026amp; Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Its programmatic and didactic approach will make \u003ci\u003eMigrants and City-Making\u003c\/i\u003e a useful teaching tool for students of migration and urban theory. The argumentation is bold and restated at multiple points in the book.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Madeleine Reeves * Laboratorium *\u003cbr\u003e\"... \u003ci\u003eImmigrants and City-Making\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Migrants and City-Making\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e“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 *\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eMigrants and City-Making\u003c\/i\u003e] 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Multiscalar City-Making and Emplacement: Processes, Concepts, and Methods  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introducing Three Cities: Similarities despite Difference  33\u003cbr\u003e 2. Welcoming Narratives: Small Migrant Businesses within Multiscalar Restructuring  95\u003cbr\u003e 3. They Are Us: Urban Sociabillites with Multiscalar Power  121\u003cbr\u003e 4. Social Citizenship of the Dispossessed: Embracing Global Christianity  147\u003cbr\u003e 5. \"Searching Its Future in Its Past\": The Multiscalar Emplacement of Returnees  177\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Time, Space, and Agency  209\u003cbr\u003e Notes  227\u003cbr\u003e References  239\u003cbr\u003e Index  275","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406108991831,"sku":"9780822370567","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822370567.jpg?v=1730494564","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/migrants-and-citymaking-9780822370567","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}