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oapen-20.500.12657-257632021-11-10T07:57:02Z Migrants and City-Making Çaglar, Ayse Glick Schiller, Nina Sociology Migrants City-making Urban regeneration Displacement Dispossession bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSG Urban communities 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. 2019-03-08 23:55 2020-03-10 03:00:37 2020-04-01T10:48:35Z 2020-04-01T10:48:35Z 2018-10-01 book 1004325 OCN: 1100533401 9780822372011 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25763 eng application/pdf n/a 1004325.pdf Duke University Press 102064 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780822372011 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Durham, NC 102064 KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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