Course: Migration and Cities

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 …

In his video instructor Nick Dines discusses the relationship between migrants and urban public space

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 …

This video provides an overview of migrant settlement in the global city of London

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, …

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 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 …

This video looks at the role of guest worker programmes and internal migration on the postwar economies of West German and northern Italian cities.

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 …

This video describes the spectacular growth of Chicago during the nineteenth century as a result of international and internal migration.

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 …