| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 280 pages :) illustrations, maps |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| 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 -- "A city searching for 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
City planning -- Germany -- Halle an der Saale
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City planning -- New Hampshire -- Manchester
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City planning -- Turkey -- Mardin
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Immigrants -- Germany -- Halle an der Saale
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Immigrants -- New Hampshire -- Manchester
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Immigrants -- Turkey -- Mardin
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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City planning
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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Immigrants
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Germany -- Halle an der Saale
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New Hampshire -- Manchester
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Turkey -- Mardin
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schiller, Nina Glick, author
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Project Muse.
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| LC no. |
2018004045 |
| ISBN |
9780822372011 |
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0822372010 |
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