Migrant City

Les Back, Shamser Sinha (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

194 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
9780367371210 (ISBN)

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Migrant City tells the story of contemporary London from the perspective of thirty adult migrants and two sociologists. Connecting migrants’ private struggles to the public issues at stake in the way mobility is regulated, channelled and managed in a globalised world, this volume explores what migration means in a world that is hyper connected – but where we see increasingly mobile, invasive and technologically sophisticated forms of border regulation and control.

Migrant City is an innovative collaborative ethnography based on research with migrants from a wide variety of social backgrounds, spanning in some cases a decade. It utilises recollections, photographs, poems, paintings, journals and drawings to explore a wide range of issues. These range from the impact of immigration control and surveillance on everyday life, to the experience of waiting for the Home Office to process their claims and the limits this places on their lives, to the friendships and relationships with neighbours that help to make London a home.

This title will appeal to students, scholars, community workers and general readers interested in migration, race and ethnicity, social exclusion, globalisation, urban sociology, and inventive social research methods.

Les Back is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Shamser Sinha is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Youth Studies in the School of Law and Social Sciences, University of Suffolk, UK

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: A Generation on the Move

Mobile Lives, Moving Borders

'We Are Here Because You Are There': Rescaling the Migration Debate

Freshie From the Boat

Waiting, Dead Time and Freer Life

Living Across Borders

Multicultural Conviviality in the Midst of Racism’s Ruins

Conclusions: London’s Story

Afterword: Writing Ethnography Differently

Erscheinungsdatum	26.07.2019
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Advances in Ethnography
Zusatzinfo	22 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	380 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9780367371210 / 9780367371210
Zustand	Neuware