Cities of Migration

Understanding the diversity of urban diversities in Europe

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ID23413286
AuthorsAsya Pisarevskaya (0000-0002-2997-4605, Erasmus University Rotterdam), Peter Scholten (0000-0001-5745-9531, Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Year2025
Publication date2025-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueCities of Migration (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherSpringer Nature Switzerland (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/978-3-031-72211-0
OpenAlexW4403526682
ISBN9783031722110
LanguageEN
Citations received7

Writing this book has been a long and ambitious journey.Inspired by the works of early pioneers such as Mahnig (2004), Glick Schiller and alar (2009) and Borkert and Caponio (2010), we started our quest to understand 'the diversity of urban diversities' already in 2018.Echoing the work from preceding decades in deconstructing 'national models of integration', we believed there should be a much greater appreciation of variation in local approaches to migration and diversity as well.Achieving this was, however, incredibly ambitious and challenging, due to challenges in data availability, comparability, methods and interpretation.But we got there; a typology of cities of migration that helps understand the diversity of urban diversities.We were stimulated, helped and encouraged on this journey by great academic peers and by much-needed institutional support.The research initiative Vital Cities and Citizens from Erasmus University was indispensable in providing the funds required to freeing our research time to give our full attention (devotion) to the book.In addition, we thank the EU Knowledge Centre for Migration and Demography for giving access to the D4I dataset that provided a solution to some of the data and comparability issues that we had been facing.Many inspiring conversations shaped the book in one way or another.With the disclaimer that being fully complete is impossible, we would like to mention at least a number of key conversations.First of all, we are grateful to our dear colleague Zeynep Kal who has been the key to conceptual brainstorming and literature review in the very beginning of the project, and who has also contributed to a related earlier publication (Pisarevskaya, 2021).Secondly, we are thankful for the inspiring meetings with the 'visualizing superdiversity' team including Steven Vertovec, Dan Hiebert and Alan Gamlen.We also want to mention the inspiring conversations and discussions around the book at several conferences of the IMISCOE research network.Finally, we want to thank our research assistants Johanna von Kietzell, Andrew Ferron, Adham Aly, Houda Nabih and Damiano Spinelli for all their great work in data collection and translations for this book.Besides data issues and methodological challenges, a more unanticipated challenge came from the COVID pandemic.This was not only a challenge to the team vi but also took away the possibility to travel to the cities that were selected for the more in-depth qualitative research.This meant we had to spend much time engaging with various persons from the selected cities through our screens.We thank all the participants from the 16 case cities for their collaboration in these difficult times.We also like to express our gratitude to the Erasmus Open Access Fund of Erasmus University for its support for making this book Open Access.We see publishing OA as an important strategy for disclosing our work to the broadest audience possible, and we adhere to open science as a core value.In spite of the huge ambition, we are aware that this is just the first step towards a deeper understanding of these urban diversities.We hope that our typology will receive lots of additions and amendments in the future; we see that as a sign of serious engagement with the typology, and hopefully also as a key step towards applying and re-examining the typology in a broader number of national and regional contexts across the globe.So, this book is not the end of our journey, but only the start of it!Asya Pisarevskaya and

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