Locating Migration
In this book Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse aglar, along with a stellar group of contributing authors, examine the relationship between migrants and cities in a time of massive urban restructuring. They…
Specifikacia Locating Migration
In this book Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse aglar, 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