Cities as Lived Spaces: Making Sense of Everyday Migrant Sociability in Academic Discourses on Migration and Cities
Amrith, Megha, "Cities as Lived Spaces: Making Sense of Everyday Migrant Sociability in Academic Discourses on Migration and Cities" in Migration Across Boundaries: Linking Research to Practice and Experience ed. Nair, Parvati and Bloom, Tendayi (London: Routledge, 2015), 163-182.
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Bloom, TendayiChapter Title Cities as Lived Spaces: Making Sense of Everyday Migrant Sociability in Academic Discourses on Migration and Cities Book Title Migration Across Boundaries: Linking Research to Practice and Experience Publication Date 2015 Place of Publication London Publisher Routledge Start page 163 End page 182 Language eng Abstract A city offers ‘freedom, camaraderie and possibility’, writes Aman Sethi (2012: 34) referring to the urban worlds of migrants in Delhi. Freedom, camaraderie and possibility have been enduring ideas in the social and cultural imaginaries of migrants around the world, past and present. Historical work has demonstrated how the relationship between migration and cities is far from new. Migrants around the world have long aspired to find work, build new homes and seek companionship in urban spaces, while films, radio, music, television, and now the digital media, have been fundamental in sustaining these aspirations. This chapter examines this important phenomenon by considering how academic discourses in migration studies and urban studies are trying to make sense of cities as lived spaces of mobility. Migration and mobility are fundamental to the inherent dynamism of cities, to their creative energy, rich diversity and to their development. As Nikos Papastergiadis (2000: 10) writes, ‘the tension between movement and settlement is constitutive of modern life’; the migrant and the urban are inextricably bound and urban spaces and identities are shaped in and through ‘the practice of everyday life’ (de Certeau, 1984). UNBIS Thesaurus HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
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