(Un)Settled Sojourners in Cities: Challenges of "Temporariness" among Migrants and Asylum Seekers

This book provides an important contribution to the literature on the rights, lived experiences and trajectories of temporary migrants. It focuses on the precarity of temporary migrants at different scales in urban settings, varying from the household, institution, and neighbourhood to the city.

Author: Elizabeth Chacko
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 02/28/2023
Pages: 170
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781032433813

About the Author

Elizabeth Chacko is Professor of Geography and International Affairs at George Washington University, USA. She has conducted research in the United States, India, Ethiopia, and Singapore on the flows of people, capital and ideas, and their impacts on economic, cultural and social geographies in cities.

Marie Price is Professor of Geography and International Affairs at George Washington University, USA. She is interested in how cities and civil society respond to immigrants as well as how immigrants influence these localities through their own agency and networks. Most of her work focuses upon the Americas.