7. Transnational Migration and Rescaling Processes: The Incorporation of Migrant Labor

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. Introduction: Migrants and Cities 1
5. Part I: Migration and Cities: Reframing the Topic
6. 2. The Urban Question and the Scale Question: Some Conceptual Clarifications 23
7. 3. The Socioterritoriality of Cities: A Framework for Understanding the Incorporation of Migrants in Urban Labor Markets 42
8. 4. Locality and Globality: Building a Comparative Analytical Framework in Migration and Urban Studies 60
9. Part II: Migrants as Scale Makers: Rescaling Urban Neighborhoods, Cities, and Their Regions
10. 5. Scalar Positioning and Immigrant Organizations: Asian Indians and the Dynamics of Place 85
11. 6. Cities and the Social Construction of Hot Spots: Rescaling, Ghanaian Migrants, and the Fragmentation of Urban Spaces 104
12. 7. Transnational Migration and Rescaling Processes: The Incorporation of Migrant Labor 123
13. 8. The Campaign for New Immigrants in Urban Regeneration: Imagining Possibilities and Confronting Realities 143
14. 9. Rescaling Processes in Two “Global” Cities: Festive Events as Pathways of Migrant Incorporation 166
15. 10. Downscaled Cities and Migrant Pathways: Locality and Agency without an Ethnic Lens 190
16. 11. Remaking Locality: Uneven Globalization and Transmigrants’ Unequal Incorporation 213
17. 12. Afterword: An Ethnographic View of Size, Scale, and Locality 235
18. Bibliography 243
19. Biographical Notes 267
20. Index 271