(Un)settled Sojourners in Cities - Challenges of Temporariness Among Migrants and Asylum Seekers

List of contents

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-İzmir, 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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth (George Washington University Chacko
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Chacko (Editor), Chacko Elizabeth (Editor), Marie Price (Editor), Price Marie (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2023
• EAN: 9781032433813
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3243381-3
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Research in Ethnic and Migration Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Human Geography, Urban communities, Settlement, urban and rural geography, Population and migration geography, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity