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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …