Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World

This open access book draws a theoretically productive triangle between urban studies, theories of cosmopolitanism, and migration studies in a global context. It provides a unique, encompassing and situated view on the various relations between cosmopolitanism and urbanity in the contemporary world....

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Other Authors: Lejeune, Catherine (Editor), Pagès-El Karoui, Delphine (Editor), Schmoll, Camille (Editor), Thiollet, Hélène (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2021, 2021
Edition:1st ed. 2021
Series:IMISCOE Research Series
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World: An Introduction
  • Part I: Making Cosmopolitan Places in a Globalized World
  • Chapter 2. Generic Places: The Construction of Home and the Lived Experience of Cosmopolitanization
  • Chapter 3. Making Cosmopolitan Spaces: Urban Design, Ideology and Power
  • Chapter 4. Dakar by Night: Engaging with Cosmopolitanism by Contrast
  • Chapter 5. Urban Cosmopolitanism in the Arab World: Contributing to Theoretical Debates from the Middle East
  • Part II: Urbanity and Everyday Cosmopolitanism in Ordinary Places
  • Chapter 6. Cosmopolitan Dubai: Consumption and Segregation in a Global City
  • Chapter 7. Everyday Cosmopolitanism in African Cities: Places of Leisure and Consumption in Antananarivo and Maputo
  • Chapter 8. What’s in a Street? Exploring Suspended Cosmopolitanism in Trikoupi, Nicosia
  • Chapter 9. Branding Cosmopolitanism and Place Making in Saint Laurent Boulevard, Montreal
  • Part III: Migrant Cosmopolitanism: FragileBelongings and Contested Citizenships
  • Chapter 10. Sweeping the Streets, Cleaning Morals in Paris: Chinese Sex Workers Claiming Their Belonging to the Cosmopolitan City
  • Chapter 11. Cosmopolitanism in US Sanctuary Cities: Dreamers Claiming Urban Citizenship
  • Chapter 12. Migrant Cosmopolitanism in Emirati and Saudi Cities: Practices and Belonging in Exclusionary Contexts
  • Chapter 13. Figures of the Cosmopolitan Condition: The Wanderer, the Outcast, and the Foreigner