This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the 1990s following the end of the Cold War which marked the advent…
In this book the authors present 13 papers exploring the role of both international and domestic labor migration flows in reshaping urban contexts in Asia while paying particular attention to issues of marginalization and contestation.
What is a Global City? Who authorizes the World Class City? This edited volume interrogates the "global cities" literature, which views the city as a shimmering, financial "global network." Through a historical-ethnographic exploration of inter-ethnic relations in the "other glo…
What is a Global City? Through a historical-ethnographic exploration of inter-ethnic relations in Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, Bukhara, Lhasa, Delhi, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo, the contributors of this book highlight cartographies of the 'Other Global City'.
What is a Global City? Through a historical-ethnographic exploration of inter-ethnic relations in Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, Bukhara, Lhasa, Delhi, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo, the contributors of this book highlight cartographies of the 'Other Global City'.
