Locating Migration by Nina Glick Schiller
This books examines the relationship between migrants and cities in a time of massive urban restructuring, finding that locality matters in migration research and migrants matter in the reconfiguration of contemporary cities.Locating Migration: Rescaling Cities and Migrantsis an attempt to examine migrants as integral to cities through analyses of scale, space, and temporal phenomena in different placesThe editors want tosteer the study of migrants away froma narrow focus that has isolated ethnic communities and theorize the important role that migrants have had in shaping and being shaped by cities and the scale issues related to cities.. This book would be useful for anyone teaching courses in international planning, immigration, and planning, and planning history and theory.
-- Elizabeth L. Sweet * Journal of Planning Education and Research *Nina Glick Schiller is Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at the University of Manchester. She is coauthor of Nations Unbound and Georges Woke up Laughing and founding editor of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. Ayse Çağlar is Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University and a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801476877 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801476879 |
| Title | Locating Migration |
| Author | Nina Glick Schiller |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press |
| Year published | 2010-11-11 |
| Number of pages | 296 |
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