Walter J. Nicholls, Justus Uitermark

Gebundenes Buch

Cities and Social Movements

Immigrant Rights Activism in the Us, France, and the Netherlands, 1970-2015

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9781118750650
• ISBN-10: 1118750659
• Artikelnr.: 45101565