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What interests me as a scholar and a person is how diversity is being lived in urban environments, what multiculturalism looks like on the ground. On the heels of a sabbatical year of fieldwork in 20142015, I have just completed an investigation into the impact that the severe economic downturn following the financial crisis of 20072008 has had on the integration of urban migrants in Europe and North America. I compare the experiences of migrants from five countries of origin (Ghana, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, and Serbia) in five similar, secondary global cities: Barcelona, Chicago, Hamburg, Montr???U?al, and Toronto. My work uses statistical analysis to gauge changes in residential concentration and segregation, unemployment, poverty, and social assistance rate?what is generally referred to as structural integration. I also provide qualitative analyses of individual city neighborhoods where migrant groups have settled, exploring the area? evolution and the ambivalent impact that local policy responses have had on their resident? quality of life. Gathering the data for this project has given me insights into both the challenges and the rewards of migrant integration research, comparative urban research, and mixed-methods research.

This book examines how the severe economic downturn following the 2007-2008 financial crisis affected the structural integration and quality of life of urban migrants in Europe and North America. It compares the experiences of migrants from Poland, Romania, Serbia, Pakistan, and Ghana in five similar, secondary global cities of Hamburg (Germany), Barcelona (Spain), Chicago (USA), Toronto (Ontario, Canada), and Montréal (Québec, Canada) over the period of 2000-2015. The work uses statistical analysis to gauge changes in residential segregation and structural integration (such as unemployment, poverty, and social assistance rates). It then provides qualitative analyses of individual city neighborhoods where the target migrant groups have settled, exploring each community's unique evolution and the ambivalent impact that local policy responses have had on their quality of life. With this study, researchers, instructors, students, and policymakers with an interest in migration, urban development, and global cities will be far more knowledgeable of both the potential and limits of policy efforts.

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Ethnic conflict has become a major challenge facing unified Germany. While anti-immigrant violence has been virulent across the country, it has been especially conspicuous and upsetting in former East Germany, where foreigners had barely exceeded one percent of the total population before unification. Arguments emphasizing economic, socioeconomic and group-identity factors have appeared to explain the rise in intolerance. Here, however, I argue for consideration of the largely ignored effects of public policies. Examining how policy choices and implementation in eastern Germany before, during, and since unification have affected ethnic relations provides lessons about the origins of racism and ways to combat it.

Argues that there are significant barriers for foreign-born communities in Europe to participate in the political formation of European-level forms of organization & lines of solidarity. Included in these barriers are the structure of the European Union (EU), the trend toward intergovernmental rather than European policy formation, which is exacerbated by the diversity of national immigration policies, & the specific actions of EU officials. However, despite these obstacles, foreign-born communities have managed to organize their interests, eg: homeland-oriented participation networks have arisen, Islam has taken an assertive role in political & cultural mobilization, & trade unions have given foreign-born immigrants a much stronger legal position. These efforts have been accelerated & joined by EU initiatives in the face of a recent rise in anti-immigration, racist sentiment, & attacks on the electoral gains of foreign-born communities. D. M. Smith