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Author Simsek-Caglar, Ayse, author.

Title Migrants and City-Making : Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration / Ayşe Çağlar and Nina Glick Schiller.

Publication Info. Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020.
©2018.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (296 pages): illustrations, maps
text file
Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Contents Introduction : multiscalar city-making and emplacement: processes, concepts, and methods -- Introducing three cities : similarities despite difference -- Welcoming narratives : small migrant businesses within multiscalar restructuring -- They are us : urban sociabilities within multiscalar power -- Social citizenship of the dispossessed : embracing global Christianity -- "Searching its future in its past" : the multiscalar emplacement of returnees -- Conclusion : time, space, and agency.
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.
Local Note Project Muse Project Muse Open Access
Access Open Access Unrestricted online access
Subject 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.
Turkey -- Mardin.
Immigrants -- New Hampshire -- Manchester.
New Hampshire -- Manchester.
Immigrants -- Germany -- Halle an der Saale.
Germany -- Halle an der Saale.
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
City planning -- Turkey -- Mardin.
City planning -- New Hampshire -- Manchester.
City planning -- Germany -- Halle an der Saale.
USA.
Türkei.
Mardin.
Manchester, NH.
Halle (Saale)
Genre/Form Electronic books. .
Added Author Schiller, Nina Glick, author.
Project Muse, distributor.
ISBN 9780822370567
9780822370444
9781478091028
9780822372011
0822370441
0822372010
1478091029