Migrants and City-Making : Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration /

Migrants and City-Making : Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration /

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In Migrants and City-Making Ayşe Çağlar 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 f...

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Main Authors: Simsek-Caglar, Ayse (Author), Schiller, Nina Glick (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Zuwanderer
Vergleichende Forschung
Stadtforschung
Soziale Integration
Kulturanthropologie
Immigrants.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
City planning.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Urban communities.
Émigration et immigration > Aspect social.
Immigrants > Turkey > Mardin.
Immigrants > New Hampshire > Manchester.
Immigrants > Germany > Halle an der Saale.
City planning > Turkey > Mardin.
City planning > New Hampshire > Manchester.
City planning > Germany > Halle an der Saale.
USA
Türkei
Mardin
Manchester, NH
Halle (Saale)
Turkey > Mardin.
New Hampshire > Manchester.
Germany > Halle an der Saale.
Electronic books.
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Summary:In Migrants and City-Making Ayşe Çağlar 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--Çağlar and Glick Schiller challenge common assumptions that migrants exist on society's periphery, threaten social cohesion, and require integration. Instead Çağlar 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 Çağlar 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, Çağlar 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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9780822372011
Access:Open Access

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