Overview: Provides a unique ‘glocal‘ perspective in that the migration of different ethnic, religious, and racial groups presents opportunities for new thinking about diversity in urban contests.Addresses often.In this book, an international team of urban anthropologists, sociologists, and ethnographers argue that politics, intergroup relations, and development in cities cannot be understood without reference to the local contexts that endow each city with specific characteristics. They also show how local urban economic, social, and cultural lives are influenced by powerful external forces. I
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