Migrants in cities: modelling urban identities
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This paper engages with contemporary anxieties about migration into European cities. It builds on earlier works in urban anthropology, and uses the discipline’s classical perspectives to explain local variation in patterns of exclusion and absorption. The focus is on effects of each urban setting on the outcome of migration and identity processes played out in it. A model of urban systems is proposed. It offers a way of thinking about three questions: Why do urban areas with similarly mixed populations have different capacity to absorb incomers? What drives group identity processes in cities? And finally: Which migrants will do best where?
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