Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Multiscalar City-Making and Emplacement: Processes, Concepts, and Methods; Chapter 1. Introducing Three Cities: Similarities despite Differences; Chapter 2. Welcoming Narratives: Small Migrant Businesses within Multiscalar Restructuring; Chapter 3. They Are Us: Urban Sociabilities within Multiscalar Power; Chapter 4. Social Citizenship of the Dispossessed: Embracing Global Christianity; Chapter 5. "Searching Its Future in Its Past": The Multiscalar Emplacement of Returnees; Conclusion. Time, Space, and Agency; Notes
Summary
Ayşe 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