{"product_id":"cities-and-social-movements-immigrant-rights-activism-in-the-us-france-and-the-netherlands-1970-2015-hardback-9781118750650","title":"Cities and Social Movements; Immigrant Rights Activism in the US, France, and the Netherlands, 1970-2015 (Hardback) 9781118750650","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCities and Social Movements\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eImmigrant Rights Activism in the US, France, and the Netherlands, 1970-2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Nicholls and Uitermark’s book offers a richly textured and insightful analysis of the complex dynamics of immigrant rights movements in Los Angeles, Paris and Amsterdam. Their “bottom up” approach exposes the ways in which immigrant “illegality” is constructed and contested in those three different contexts, each with its own distinctive governmental regime, and reminds us once again that all politics is local.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRuth Milkman, Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center, New York\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“What makes social movements by groups usually considered as resourceless possible? Through cross-national comparison and using a historical perspective, aptly bridging sociology and geography, this volume convincingly argues that, notwithstanding more and more exclusive neoliberal policies in global cities, the relational qualities of some places help the incubation of resistance.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonatella della Porta, Director of the Centre on Social Movement Studies, Scuola normale superiore di Firenze, Florence\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Bringing diverse people together, cities are not just sites of tension, but also alliances. As Nicholls and Uitermark show in their innovative comparison, public policies and city residents’ relations as neighbors, co-workers and community members can spark movements of resistance and solidarity. As anti-immigrant rhetoric pervades European and American politics, Nicholls and Uitermark’s empirically and theoretically rich analysis could not be more timely.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrene Bloemraad, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This book is essential reading to understand how immigrant rights struggles persist in the face of growing xenophobia and parochialism. Using an impressive array of sources, Nicholls and Uitermark show how these struggles emerge, use cities as strategic sites, and thrive or fail. In addition to its rich empirical content, \u003ci\u003eCities and Social Movements\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant reflection on the relationship between space, social movements and cities.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMustafa Dikeç, Professor of Urban Studies, Ecole d’Urbanisme de Paris and LATTS, Paris\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWalter J. Nicholls (Author), Justus Uitermark (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781118750650, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 December 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.476 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, \u003ci\u003eCities and Social Movements\u003c\/i\u003e examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do – or don’t – develop into large and sustained mobilizations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents a comprehensive, comparative analysis of immigrant rights politics in three countries over a period of five decades, providing vivid accounts of the processes through which immigrants activists challenged or confirmed the status quo\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTheorizes movements from the bottom-up, presenting an urban grassroots account in order to identify how movement networks emerge or fall apart\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a unique contribution by examining how geography is implicated in the evolution of social movements, discovering how and why the networks constituting movements grow by tracing where they develop\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDemonstrates how efforts to enforce national borders trigger countless resistances and shows how some environments provide the relational opportunities to nurture these small resistances into sustained mobilizations\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten to appeal to a broad audience of students, scholars, policy makers, and activists, without sacrificing theoretical rigor\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeries Editors’ Preface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Sparks of Resistance 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Rethinking Movements from the Bottom Up 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I The Birth of Immigrant Rights Activism 37\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Making Space for Immigrant Rights Activism in Los Angeles 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Radical Entanglements in Paris 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Placing Protest in Amsterdam 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Urban Landscapes of Control and Contention 89\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Laissez‐Faire State: Re‐politicizing Immigrants in Los Angeles 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Uneven Reach of the State: The Partial Pacification of Paris 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Cooptative State: The Pacification of Contentious Immigrant Politics in Amsterdam 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III New Geographies of Immigrant Rights Movements 157\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Los Angeles as a Center of the National Immigrant Rights Movement 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Paris as Head of Splintering Resistances 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Divergent Geographies of Immigrant Rights Contention in the Netherlands 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Conclusion: Sparks into Wildfires 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 262\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Geography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Geography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Geography%20%5BRG%5D%22\"\u003eRG\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52421366841624,"sku":"9781118750650","price":50.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781118750650.jpg?v=1784592567","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/cities-and-social-movements-immigrant-rights-activism-in-the-us-france-and-the-netherlands-1970-2015-hardback-9781118750650","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}