Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : migrants and cities / Ayşe Çağlar and Nina Glick Schiller -- The urban question and the scale question : some conceptual clarification / Neil Brenner -- The socioterritoriality of cities : a framework for understanding the incorporation of migrants in urban labor markets / Michael Samers -- Locality and globality : building a comparative analytical framework in migration and urban studies / Nina Glick Schiller and Ayşe Çağlar -- Scalar positioning and immigrant organizations : Asian Indians and the dynamics of place / Caroline B. Brettell -- Cities and the social construction of hot spots : rescaling, Ghanaian migrants, and the fragmentation of urban spaces / Rijk van Dijk -- Transnational migration and rescaling processes : the incorporation of migrant labor / Ruba Salih and Bruno Riccio -- The campaign for new immigrants in urban regeneration : imagining possibilities and confronting realities / Judith Goode -- Rescaling processes in two "global" cities : festive events as pathways of migrant incorporation / Monika Salzbrunn -- Downscaled cities and migrant pathways : locality and agency without an ethnic lens / Nina Glick Schiller and Ayşe Çağlar -- Remaking locality : uneven globalization and transmigrants' unequal incorporation / Bela Feldman-Bianco -- Afterword : an ethnographic view of size, scale, and locality / Gunther Schlee.