As vibrant places of exchange, arrival cities have long been indicators of social health. Whenever migrant populations are systematically ignored, we should expect violence and extremism. But as Saunders demonstrates, when we make proper investment in our arrival cities, a prosp…
This ethical and poetic ethnography analyses the upheavals to gender roles and marital relationships brought about by Somali refugee migration to the UK. Unmoored from the socio-cultural norms that made them men and women, being a refugee is described as making "everything" feel…
Global changes in capital, power, technology and the media have caused massive shifts in how we define home and community. With a foreword by Homi K. Bhabha, this book examines our perceptions of home and exile. A transnational array of critics discuss the way film, television, …
This global volume explores migration, precarious employment, transformation of paid work and the political actions of immigrant and migrant workers. As the struggle against neoliberalism becomes ever more global, Just Work will be the definitive book on the growing social and p…
As the multifamily building type that often symbolized urban squalor, tenements are familiar but poorly understood, frequently recognized only in terms of the housing reform movement embraced by the American-born elite in the late nineteenth century. This book reexamines urban A…
A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected