Nina Glick Schiller is Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at the University of Manchester. She is coauthor of Nations Unbound and Georges Woke up Laughing and founding editor of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. Ayse Çälar is Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University and a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.

1. Introduction: Migrants and Citiesby Ayse Caglar and Nina Glick SchillerPart I: Migration and Cities: Reframing the Topic2. The Urban Question and the Scale Question: Some Conceptual Clarificationsby Neil Brenner3. The Socioterritoriality of Cities: A Framework for Understanding theIncorporation of Migrants in Urban Labor Marketsby Michael Samers4. Locality and Globality: Building a Comparative Analytical Framework in Migration and Urban Studiesby Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse CaglarPart II: Migrants as Scale Makers: Rescaling Urban NeighborhoodsCities, and Their Regions5. Scalar Positioning and Immigrant Organizations: Asian Indians and the Dynamics of Placeby Caroline B. Brettell6. Cities and the Social Construction of Hot Spots: Rescaling, Ghanaian Migrants, and the Fragmentation of Urban Spacesby Rijk van Dijk7. Transnational Migration and Rescaling Processes: The Incorporation of Migrant Laborby Ruba Salih and Bruno Riccio8. The Campaign for New Immigrants in Urban Regeneration: Imagining Possibilities and Confronting Realitiesby Judith Goode9. Rescaling Processes in Two "Global" Cities: Festive Events as Pathways of Migrant Incorporationby Monika Salzbrunn10. Downscaled Cities and Migrant Pathways: Locality and Agency without an Ethnic Lensby Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse Caglar11. Remaking Locality: Uneven Globalization and Transmigrants' Unequal Incorporationby Bela Feldman-Bianco12. Afterword: An Ethnographic View of Size, Scale, and Localityby Gunther SchleeBibliographyBiographical NotesIndex

Nina Glick Schiller is Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at the University of Manchester. She is coauthor of Nations Unbound and Georges Woke up Laughing and founding editor of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. Ayse ¿glar is Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University and a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.