Handbook on Migration and Cities

Handbook on Migration and Cities

by Els de Graauw, Jan Rath, and Ceren Kulkul

Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (in press)
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Summary

Cities and migration shape one another in profound ways, yet migration studies and urban studies have often developed separately. This Handbook brings them together, placing human mobility at the center of contemporary urban transformation while also highlighting how processes of urban transformation shape patterns and experiences of human mobility. Migrants—from marginalized newcomers to highly skilled professionals—reshape neighborhoods, labor markets, institutions, and political life, even as the histories and structures of cities shape how migrants settle, access opportunities, and experience belonging or exclusion. Cities are therefore not neutral backdrops but dynamic socio-spatial arenas where rights, resources, and inequalities are organized and contested.

With 51 chapters, this volume offers a wide-ranging exploration of these versatile dynamics. It moves from broad concepts and theoretical debates to grounded analyses of how cities structure these processes on the one hand, and how migration shapes housing, work, education, politics, and cultural life in cities around the world on the other. Attention is given not only to major structures and institutions but also to the everyday practices through which migrants and city dwellers create meaning, negotiate difference, and build community. Organized around themes such as concepts and debates, mobility and settlement, everyday urban life, proliferating social worlds, and politics, the collection draws on diverse disciplines and perspectives to provide a comprehensive framework for understanding the intersections of migration and urban life.

Bringing together leading scholars from Europe and North America while engaging perspectives from the Global South, the Handbook offers a fresh and integrated framework for understanding how mobility and cities together drive the social, spatial, and political transformations of our time. Accessible yet firmly rooted in scholarship, the book offers readers the knowledge to explore cities as spaces where migration is not peripheral but central—an ongoing force that shapes the past, present, and future of urban society.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

i Table of Contents
ii List of Figures
iii List of Tables
iv List of Abbreviations
v List of Contributors
vi Acknowledgements
vii Preface

Part 1 — Framing the Migration-City Nexus
Foundations, Urbanization, and Big-Picture Dynamics

1 Introduction: Bringing Migration and Urban Studies into Dialogue
Els de Graauw and Jan Rath

2 Urbanization from a Global South Perspective
Loren Landau

3 Cities as a Lens on Migration
Jack Burgers and Jan Rath

4 Migration as a Lens on Cities
Yolande Pottie-Sherman and Morgan Manuel

5 Urban Growth and Decline and the Migration Nexus
Danan Gu

Part 2 — Theories, Genealogies, and Core Debates
Intellectual Lineages and Conceptual Lenses

6 German Classical Sociology and Migration
Jack Burgers

7 The Chicago School and Migration
Deirdre Oakley and Rafia Mallick

8 Urban Diversities: Towards a Typology of Cities of Migration
Asya Pisarevskaya and Peter Scholten

9 Migration, Urban Change, Adaptation, and Resilience
Marshall Plane, Daniel Jenks, and Ernesto Castañeda

10 The City Imagined
Phil Kasinitz

11 Cities, Migration, and Colonial Memory
Michal Huss

12 Migration and the Right to the City
Sernaz Arslan

Part 3 — Mobility, Arrival, and Urban Restructuring
Movement, Transformation, and Spatial Reconfiguration

13 Migration and Peripheralized Places
Norma Schemschat

14 The Urban Gentrification-Migration Nexus
Franz Buhr

15 Migration and the Absorptive Capacity of Cities
Valerie Preston and John Shields

16 Migration, Cities, and New Technologies
Maria Lucinda Fonseca

17 Urban Refugees of the Global South
Nick Dreher, Bridget Collrin, and Harald Bauder

18 Cities as Critical Nodes of Climate Mobility
Achilles Kallergis and Manavi Datta

19 Transit Cities
Gennaro Errichiello

20 Sanctuary Cities: An Assemblage Approach
Bridget Collrin, Nick Dreher, and Harald Bauder

Part 4 — Making a Life in the City
Institutions, Infrastructures, and Everyday Provision

21 Labour Migration, Work, and the City
Ruben Timmerman

22 Resilient and Resourceful: Migrant Entrepreneurs in Cities
Trevor Jones and Monder Ram

23 Cities, Migrants, and Labor Conditions
Adolfho Romero and Shannon Gleeson

24 Migration, Cities, and Land-Use Regulation
Stacy A. Harwood

25 Cities, Housing, and Homeless Migrants
René Kreichauf

26 Squatting the City: Migrant Presence and Urban Contestation
Valeria Raimondi

27 Migration, Urban Living, and Health Risks
Alexandre Zerbo

28 Migration, Cities, and Language Development
Fang Xu

29 Cities, Food, and Migrant Homemaking Practices
Sabrina Dinmohamed

30 Arts, Culture, Migration, and the City
Wiebke Sievers

31 Migration, Cities, and Religion
Ester Gallo

32 Migrants, Music, and Cities
Robert C. Kloosterman

33 Cities, Migration, and Leisure
Danielle Chevalier

34 Migration Museums and the Cultural Politics of Belonging in Cities
Els de Graauw and Rebekah Grafton

35 Migration and the City-Cinema Nexus
Elena Pollacchi

36 Cities, Migrants, and Social Media
Ke M. Huang-Isherwood

Part 5 — Urban Social Worlds
Belonging, Encounters, and Inequality

37 Migrant Segregation in Cities
Szymon Marcińczak, Ricardo Iglesias-Pascual, and Federico Benassi

38 Conviviality: Everyday Living Together in Cities of Migration and Diversity
Kristen Sarah Biehl

39 Cosmopolitan Practices in Cities and Towns
Michael Woods

40 Tactical Cosmopolitanism and Everyday Urban Life
Meng Xu and Mervyn Horgan

41 Migration and Conviviality in Urban Public Spaces
Clare Rishbeth and Goran Vodicka

42 Cities and Everyday Racism
Kevin M. Dunn and Öznur Şahin

43 Informality, Migrants, and the City
Andrés Besserer Rayas and Andrea Peña-Vasquez

Part 6 — Governance, Rights, and the Politics of Belonging
Institutions, Coalitions, and Multi-Scalar Governance

44 Cities and Migration in a Multi-Scalar Perspective
Federico Alagna and Chiara Milan

45 Migrants and Urban Bureaucracies
Els de Graauw and Jan Rath

46 Migrants, Cities, and the Politics of Representation
Els de Graauw

47 Migrant Rights Movements as Urban Social Movements
Maria Schiller and Thomas Swerts

48 Cities and the Global Governance of Migration
Thomas Lacroix and Antoine Pécoud

49 DIY Urbanism and Migration in an Uncertain World
Stephen Marr and Cory Satter

50 Cities, Migration, and Cross-Ethnic/Racial Coalition Building
Fanny Lauby

51 Cities, Migration, and LGBTIQ+ Intersectional Coalition Building
Karine Duplan

Index