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Given the hostile climate facing immigrants, it might be expected that they would try to remain hidden and under the radar. However, many immigrants have asserted their rights for equality in the countries they reside in. While the general policy evolution has been in the direction of greater restrictions, some immigrant mobilizations have successfully swum against the tide and achieved important wins including large-scale regularizations. Cities and Social Movements make sense of these remarkable mobilizations and their successes or failures.

Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France, and the Netherlands, this book examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do - or don't - develop into large and sustained mobilizations. Drawing on a range of disciplines, the book rethinks movements from the bottom-up. The authors descend to the urban grassroots to uncover the micro-mechanisms through which movement networks emerge or disband. Cities and Social Movements demonstrate how efforts to enforce national borders trigger countless resistances and shows how some environments provide the opportunities to nurture these small resistances into sustained and system-challenging mobilizations.

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Title Cities and Social Movements: Immigrant Rights Activism in the US, France, and the Netherlands, 1970-2015
Author Walter J. Nicholls; Justus Uitermark
Binding Paperback
Pages 280
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Date 2016
Features Bibliography, Index
ISBN 9781118750667 / 1118750667
Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.27 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Cultural Region: Benelux
- Cultural Region: French
Library of Congress subjects Social action, Social movements
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016028175
Dewey Decimal Code 323.329

About the author

Walter Nicholls is Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine. His main areas of research have been the role of cities in social movements and immigration. He has published widely in journals including Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Theory and Society, Theory, Culture and Society, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and Environment and Planning A. His study of the undocumented youth movement in the United States was published as The DREAMers: How the Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed the Immigrant Rights Debate (Stanford University Press).

Justus Uitermark is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests include Urban Studies and Political Sociology. He has published widely in journals including American Sociological Review, Political Geography, Progress in Human Geography, Social Networks and PLoS ONE. His Dynamics of Power in Dutch Integration Politics was published by University of Amsterdam Press.

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Paperback / softback. New. Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social Movements examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do or don t develop into large and sustained mobilizations.