CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Cukovic, Ana |
|---|---|
| Title | Every-Day Experiences of Migrant Entrepreneurs in Revitalizing Detroit: Migrant Emplacement and Pathways to Incorporation |
| Summary | After long-term deindustrialization, urban disinvestment, and a series of economic crises, Detroit is making a ‘comeback’. Inclusive of multiple scales of governance and speculative investments, the urban regeneration processes strive for the city’s favorable repositioning within the global networks of capital accumulation. In creating a welcoming climate in a disempowered yet regenerating city, infrastructural changes incorporate migrants as integral components of the city and drivers of diversity, repopulation, and economic growth. By using the theoretical framework of migrant emplacement and ethnographic research, this thesis focuses on the factors that, at this point in time of Detroit’s urban revitalization, influence migrant pathways to incorporation. This research shows that these pathways are fluid and are affected by: the city’s historical trajectory; the creation of and impediments to opportunity structures dependent on Detroit’s marginalized position in the global arena; institutionally implemented neoliberal restructuring. By distancing the analysis from the ethnic lens, and instead, approaching every-day experiences of migrant entrepreneurs, the empirical research shows that the formation of local and transnational networks; deployment of ethnic belongings and identities; and pathways to incorporation are fluid and contradictory and dependent on time and place. |
| Supervisor | Pogonyi, Szabolcs; Caglar, Ayse |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/cukovic_ana.pdf |
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