Full Description
This volume brings together a variety of studies on the question of cities, ethnicity and diversity. Contributions cover various facets of life in contemporary cities, ranging from the role which street markets play in diverse neighbourhoods, to everyday multiculture in a specific street, the role of community and hometown associations among migrant communities, expressions of ethnicity in urban neighbourhoods, and the changing dynamics of integration and community cohesion. This book will be of interest to those who are concerned with developing a better understanding of how urban communities are being transformed by the development of new patterns of migration and ethnic mobilisation. With contributions from a wide range of scholarly and national backgrounds, each chapter helps to provide an overview both of current trends and of historical patterns and processes. Collectively they provide important insights into the shifting patterns of community and identity in increasingly diverse communities and neighbourhoods. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Contents
Introduction 1. Urban markets and diversity: towards a research agenda 2. Super-diverse street: a 'trans-ethnography' across migrant localities 3. The perception of ethnic diversity and anti-immigrant sentiments: a multilevel analysis of local communities in Belgium 4. Policy actors' narrative constructions of migrants' integration in Malmö and Bologna 5. Social change and community cohesion: an ethnographic study of two Melbourne suburbs 6. Narratives of ethnic identity among practitioners in community settings in the northeast of England 7. Little of Italy? Assumed ethnicity in a New York City neighbourhood 8. Levelling the playing field: patterns of ethnic philanthropy among Los Angeles' middle- and upper-class Latino entrepreneurs 9. The bi-national road to immigrant rights mobilization: states, social movements and Chicago's Mexican hometown associations 10. Back to the Future: revisiting the contact hypothesis at Turkish and mixed non-profit organizations in Amsterdam 11. The early history of migration and settlement of Yemenis in Cardiff, 1939-1970: religion and ethnicity as social capital
