1st Edition
Urbanization and Migration in Three Continents
This book offers a systematic historical analysis of the relationships between migration and the development of cities, including their physical, economic, and cultural evolution.
The volume results from a comparative project that examines the interface between migration and the development of cities throughout different periods including current conditions. Nine strategic sites are examined: Three cities in Europe, three in Latin America and three in North America. The editors contribute to the analysis by summarizing lessons from the cases discussed and by providing a glimpse at the relevance of the study of migration and cities historically.
Urbanization and Migration in Three Continents will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and students of sociology, migration studies, race and ethnic studies, history, anthropology, urban studies, and economics. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
INTRODUCTION
Preface
Alejandro Portes and Margarita Rodríguez
Cities and migration
Alejandro Portes
Part I – LATIN AMERICA
BUENOS AIRES
1. Buenos Aires: from successful city/nation-building to fragmented amalgamation
Marcelo Cavarozzi
2. Commentary: From global to regional? New realities of international migration to Buenos Aires, Argentina
Emilio A. Parrado and Yasmin A. Mertehikian
MEXICO CITY
3. Migration and peripheral urbanization: the case of the metropolitan zone of the valley of Mexico
Raúl Delgado Wise, Francisco Caballero Anguiano and Selene Gaspar Olvera
4. Commentary: What is a city but its people?
Rebecca A. Sharpless
SAO PAULO
5. Migration and urban development in São Paulo
Rosa Hassan De Ferrari, Anthony Ocepek, Rachel Travis and Ariel C. Armony
6. Commentary: A city of contradictions
Bryan R. Roberts
Part II – EUROPE
BARCELONA
7. Destination Barcelona: migration processes in a historical and contemporary perspective
Sònia Parella, Clara Piqueras and Carlota Solé
8. Commentary: Understanding the case of Barcelona from the “Spanish model” of international migration
Lorenzo Cachón
LONDON
9. London: diversity and renewal over two millennia
Anthony Heatha and Yaojun Li
10. Commentary: Migrants are the city
Nina Glick Schiller
STOCKHOLM
11. Stockholm: social mechanisms of migrants’ emplacement in a segregated global city
Johan Sandberg
12. Commentary: Urban social mechanisms at work
Thomas Faist
Part III – NORTH AMERICA
LOS ANGELES
13. The trajectory of the colour line in a US immigrant gateway: hyperdiverse spatialization in Los Angeles
Min Zhou and Nicholas V. DiRago
14. Commentary: Race, place, and fate in the City of Angels
Manuel Pastor
MIAMI
15. Cross cultural urbanism: the case of Miami
Adib Cure and Carie Penabad
16. Commentary: Ethnic architecture and global cities
Larry Liu
NEW YORK CITY
17. Global commerce, immigration and diversity: a New York story
Philip Kasinitz
18. Commentary: America’s arrival city: how immigration made New York and how immigrant exclusion almost destroyed it
Natasha Iskander
EPILOGUE
From The Wealth of Nations to The Global City (over two hundred years of insights on the city and migration)
Margarita Rodríguez
Biography
Alejandro Portes is Professor of Law and Distinguished Scholar of Arts and Sciences University of Miami and Howard Harrison and Gabrielle S. Beck Professor of Sociology (Emeritus), Princeton University, USA. He has extensively published on the subjects of urbanization and migration.
Margarita Rodríguez is Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Miami, USA. Her publications include a book as a single author, three co-edited volumes, articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters.
