(Un)Settled Sojourners in Cities (eBook, ePUB)

Challenges of "Temporariness" among Migrants and Asylum Seekers
Redaktion: Chacko, Elizabeth; Price, Marie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an important contribution to the literature on the rights, lived experiences and trajectories of temporary migrants. It focuses on the precarity of temporary migrants at different scales in urban settings, varying from the household, institution, and neighbourhood to the city.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000840704
• Artikelnr.: 67297519

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Chacko is Professor of Geography and International Affairs at George Washington University, USA. She has conducted research in the United States, India, Ethiopia, and Singapore on the flows of people, capital and ideas, and their impacts on economic, cultural and social geographies in cities. Marie Price is Professor of Geography and International Affairs at George Washington University, USA. She is interested in how cities and civil society respond to immigrants as well as how immigrants influence these localities through their own agency and networks. Most of her work focuses upon the Americas.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction-(Un)settled sojourners in cities: the scalar and temporal
dimensions of migrant precarity 2. The uneven geography of asylum and
humanitarian relief: place-based precarity for Central American migrant
youth in the United States judicial system 3. Precarity of refugees: the
case of Basmane-¿zmir, Turkey 4. Soft violence: migrant domestic worker
precarity and the management of unfree labour in Singapore 5. Temporary
migrants and public space: a case study of Dongguan, China 6. Consuming the
neighbourhood? Temporary highly skilled migrants in Montreal's Mile End 7.
Promising precarity: the lives of Dublin's international students 8.
Emerging precarity among international students in Singapore: experiences,
understandings and responses 9. The ordinary lives and uneven precarity of
the DACAmented: visualising migrant precarity in metropolitan Washington