This text approaches the concept of cosmopolitan sociability as a cultural or territorial rootedness that facilitates a simultaneous openness to shared human emotions, experiences, and aspirations.
This text approaches the concept of cosmopolitan sociability as a cultural or territorial rootedness that facilitates a simultaneous openness to share...
Mobility studies emerged from a postmodern moment in which global flows of capital, people and objects were increasingly noted and celebrated. Within this new scholarship, categories of migrancy are all seen through the same analytical lens. This book builds on, as well as critiques, past and present studies of mobility. In so doing, it challenges conceptual orientations built on binaries of difference that have impeded analyses of the interrelationship between mobility and stasis. These include methodological nationalism, which counterpoises concepts of internal and international movement...
Mobility studies emerged from a postmodern moment in which global flows of capital, people and objects were increasingly noted and celebrated. With...
Ayse Caglar 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.
Ayse Caglar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the lived experiences of migrants in three cities struggling to regain their former standing, showing how th...
