Migrants in front of the station
Railway station areas have typically been places where migrant groups have congregated and created their own public space. In A Seventh Man, an account of guest workers in northern European …
Course: Migration and Cities
Migrants and urban public space
In his video instructor Nick Dines discusses the relationship between migrants and urban public space
The residential distribution of migrants in cities
Where do different migrant and post-migrant communities live in a city? Are they spread out, or are they concentrated in specific neighbourhoods? The place where migrants settle is never the …
Migrants in London’s economy: An hourglass model
This video provides an overview of migrant settlement in the global city of London
The settlement of migrants in ‘global cities’
According to the IOM’s 2015 World Migration Report, approximately 1 in 5 international migrants live in the world’s top 20 ‘global cities’ (notably cities that are advanced producers of services, …
Chinese Entrepreneurship in Prato, Italy: Cooperation or Competition?
This video discusses the arrival of Chinese migrants and entrepreneurs in the Italian city of Prato where they work in the local textile industry
Migrant entrepreneurship in the contemporary city
Migrant entrepreneurs are a very diverse group. They may come from different countries, have different educational backgrounds, be characterised by different gender, family situations and types of migration status (more …
Transnational elites and construction workers in Doha
Interview with Jeremie Molho, European University Institute (Florence, Italy) We asked Jeremie the following two questions: What kind of migrants has Doha attracted in the last few years? How do …
Migrant Labour in the Contemporary City
As we have already discussed in week 1, migrants are typically attracted to cities by opportunities for employment. Co-ethnic networks and migrant support organisations also usually abound in large cities …
Sum up of week 1
Hi everyone! Congratulations! You have made it to the end of the first week of the course. Here we sum up what we have learned during this week. We presented …
Migration and cities in postwar Europe
This video looks at the role of guest worker programmes and internal migration on the postwar economies of West German and northern Italian cities.
Urban migration beyond the West: the cases of Tokyo and Rabat
Manchester, Berlin and Chicago share two basic similarities: industrialisation and nineteenth-century rapid growth. This migration-fuelled growth, however, was not limited to Europe or North America. Cities in other parts of …
Human mobility and the birth of Chicago
This video describes the spectacular growth of Chicago during the nineteenth century as a result of international and internal migration.
Migration, industrialisation and the transformation of Berlin in a leading European metropolis
Like Manchester, Berlin rapidly expanded during the nineteenth century to become one of Europe’s principal centres of manufacturing and finance. Its growth was even more impressive: increasing from 170,000 inhabitants …
Migration and the birth of the industrial city: the example of Manchester, England
We now move to the nineteenth century to consider the rise of the modern industrial city. This could not have occurred without the contribution of mass migration that provided labour …