Migrants and City-Making : : Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration / / Nina Glick Schiller, Ayse Çaglar

• Autore: Glick Schiller Nina
• Pubblicazione: Durham, NC : , : Duke University Press, , 2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social; Social Science / Emigration & Immigration; Social sciences
• Persona (resp. second.): ÇaglarAyse
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Migrants and City-Making
• ISBN: 1-4780-9102-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910765753903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II