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 Cities and migration Part 1 – LATIN AMERICA BUENOS AIRES 1. Buenos Aires: from successful city/nation-building to fragmented amalgamation 2. Commentary: From global to regional? New realities of international migration to Buenos Aires, Argentina MEXICO CITY 3. Migration and peripheral urbanization: the case of the metropolitan zone of the valley of Mexico 4. Commentary: What is a city but its people? SAO PAULO 5. Migration and urban development in São Paulo 6. Commentary: A city of contradictions Part 2 – EUROPE BARCELONA 7. Destination Barcelona: migration processes in a historical and contemporary perspective 8. Commentary: Understanding the case of Barcelona from the “Spanish model” of international migration LONDON 9. London: diversity and renewal over two millennia 10. Commentary: Migrants are the city STOCKHOLM 11. Stockholm: social mechanisms of migrants’ emplacement in a segregated global city 12. Commentary: Urban social mechanisms at work Part 3 – NORTH AMERICA LOS ANGELES 13. The trajectory of the colour line in a US immigrant gateway: hyperdiverse spatialization in Los Angeles 14. Commentary: Race, place, and fate in the City of Angels MIAMI 15. Cross cultural urbanism: the case of Miami 16. Commentary: Ethnic architecture and global cities NEW YORK CITY 17. Global commerce, immigration and diversity: a New York story 18. Commentary: America’s arrival city: how immigration made New York and how immigrant exclusion almost destroyed it EPILOGUE From The Wealth of Nations to The Global City (over two hundred years of insights on the city and migration)
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.
