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  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction. The Migrant’s Paradox
  7. 1. The Scale of the Migrant
  8. 2. Edge Territories
  9. 3. Edge Economies
  10. 4. Unheroic Resistance
  11. 5. A Citizenship of the Edge
  12. Appendix
  13. Acknowledgments
  14. Notes
  15. Index
  16. About the Author

Index

Page references in italics refer to figures.

AAPs. See area action plans

Abbot, Diane, 38

Abdullahi, Asad, 188n47

abjection, 78, 126, 178n23

accumulation, 6, 15, 21, 76, 93, 153, 161

accumulation by dispossession, 120

adaptation, 57, 60, 77, 85, 87, 91, 105, 113, 119, 144

aesthetics, 17, 74, 75, 82, 149, 152, 160, 161, 166; city, 106; ethics and, 172, 201n43; human, 170; place, 129; politics, 19; street, 116

affordability, 105

affordable: infrastructures, 163, 167; space, 2, 83, 120, 121, 122, 124, 129, 148, 161, 162, 167, 171

Akar, Hiba Bou, 20, 63, 180n50, 186n12

alienation, 10, 12, 13, 14

Amin, Ash, 94, 160, 180n50, 198n59

Anderson, Benedict, 160

Anderson, Bridget, 35

Anderson, Elijah, 52

Andersson, Ruben, 79

Andrews, Kehinde, 94

annexation, cultural/economic, 119, 148

anti-immigration sentiment, 5, 10

anti-Islamic, 14, 157

Antillanité, 193n49

anti-migration policies, 8, 89

anti-Semitic, 110

Anzaldúa, Gloria, 168

apartheid, 19

Aquilina, Thomas: drawing by, 145

architecture, 19, 55, 84, 143, 175; global, 39; institutional, 117; reciprocal, 79

area action plans (AAPs), 122, 129

Ashe, Stephen, 192n25

assimilation, 18, 25, 27, 116, 169; cultural, 94; ideologies of, 78

association, 15, 117; citizenship and, 7; cultural, 48; global, 69; multiplicity of, 160

asylum, 74, 75, 84, 85, 87, 110, 159

Asylum and Immigration Act (1999), 43, 68, 70–71

asylum dispersal program, 68, 70, 84

asylum seekers, 70, 71, 188n44

austerian realism, 39, 183n24

austerity, 91, 94, 183n24; climate of, 89; cuts, 170; extended, 60; governance, 5, 25, 39, 71, 92, 93, 95, 107, 121, 154, 162

Austerity Programme, 5, 66

Auyero, Javier, 108

Back, Les, 51

Balibar, Étienne, 31, 36, 45, 184n36

Balti-Quarter, 97

banking systems, 108, 116

Barrett-Brown, Sophie, 35

Bauman, Zygmunt, 185n4

bazaars, 63, 113, 166

Becker, Howard, 185n55

Bellenden Road Renewal Area, 127–28

Benson, Michaela, 197n34

Berger, John, 55

Berman, Marshall, 137

Bhambra, Gurminder, 13, 178n31

Bhan, Gautam, 165, 166, 180n50, 194n7

Bhandar, Brenna, 2

Bhandar, Davina, 2

Bhattacharayya, Gargi, 21, 61, 190n3

“Big City Plan,” 103

Bintu Were, A Sahel Opera, 55

biopolitics, 13, 36, 160, 161, 163

Birmingham, 2, 5, 7, 14, 17, 19, 24, 25, 49, 50, 71, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 97, 100, 102, 107, 121, 132, 162, 164, 170; businesses in, 104; global orientation and, 103; migration to, 103; regeneration projects of, 104; riots in, 95–96; street jobs in, 104

Birmingham City Council, 102, 109

Birmingham City Council Planning Directorate, 102

Black Atlantic, The (Gilroy), 16

black life, 3, 24, 52

Black Lives Matter, 189n63, 194n1

BlackRock, 123

Blake, William, 128

Bloch, Alice, 188n42

“bogus students,” 32, 33, 79

bordering, 152; endemic, 38; enhanced, 93; everyday, 40, 47, 110, 117, 177n7; political commitment to, 4; racism of, 40; social reach of, 39; techniques of, 31

borderland, 31

borders, 2, 4, 23, 25, 68, 152, 154, 156–60; brutality of, 79; circumnavigating, 117; consciousness, 168; controls on, 9, 11, 29, 32, 39, 87, 110, 156; enhancing, 158; exclusions, 31, 39; external/internal, 57, 60; interiorization of, 46; movement across, 49; nationalism and, 8; sequence of, 116; social ramifications of, 38; surveillance, 5

borderscape, 39

Bramwell, Richard, 201n43

Braunstone Gate, 63

Brenner, Neil, 20

Brexit, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 31, 37, 93, 161, 184n44, 192n25

Brief History of Seven Killings, A (James), 1

Bristol, 2, 5, 7, 14, 19, 24, 49, 50, 60, 71, 73, 76, 77, 79, 80, 81, 86, 162, 170; slavery in, 84

British Empire/British Imperialist history, 9, 16, 62

British values, 18, 78

budget cuts, 67, 195n13

bureaucracy, 39, 41, 43, 108, 116, 123, 132, 159

Business in the Community, 192n25

Cabinet Office, 29

Çağlar, Ayse, 7

Caldeira, Teresa, 120–21, 164, 180n50

Cameron, David, 35, 37

capital, 132; access to, 87; economic, 153; global, 105; human, 46; migrant, 21; political, 153; structures of, 170; sustaining, 90; trade of, 11

capitalism, 6, 9, 13, 16, 167, 185n1; advanced, 88; cracks of, 1; edge territories and, 115; instability of, 12; neoliberal, 18; racial, 88, 168; shifts in, 21

carryouts, 65, 77; photo of, 65

Cass Cities, 200n31

Cassidy, Kathryn, 191n14

casualization, 5, 7, 21, 87, 88, 91, 105, 160, 168

Cenotaph, 29

centers and margins, 7, 13, 26, 27, 45, 59, 60, 84, 120, 121, 125, 185n1

centrality, 6, 24, 119, 154; authority of, 196n17; logics of, 161, 164, 168–69; marginality and, 3, 7, 45–46, 59, 60, 152, 155; political economy of, 119–20

Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, 180n51

Césaire, Aimé, 199n16

Chakrabortty, Aditya, 13, 14

Chambers, Iain, 129

change: cultural, 126; economic, 35, 126; optimistic renditions of, 122; process, 31; social, 126

Chari, Sharad, 7, 92, 190n1

Chasing Status: If Not British, Then What Am I?, 44

Chattopadhyay, Swati, 137, 180n50

Cheetham Hill, 7, 24, 25, 41, 49, 62, 90, 91, 92, 93, 109, 110, 134, 152, 162; employment on, 101, 114; proprietors on, 112–13; social economies of, 88; street uses on, 11; units/market values on, 114; world-to-street drawing of, 54

Chinatown, 103, 165

cinemas, 114, 123

circumvention, 8, 21, 88, 147, 149, 154, 155, 158, 194n55; forms of, 132

citizenship, 1, 30, 38, 40, 45, 51, 84, 92, 117, 152, 155, 156, 159, 168, 170; applying for, 39, 157; association and, 7; claims on, 9; demarcation of, 86, 161, 171; discriminatory regimes of, 62–63; edge, 26, 151, 153; exchange/association and, 15; forms of, 48, 52, 109, 154; limits on, 10, 79, 153; loss of, 2, 60, 162; multilingual, 48, 108, 133; possibilities of, 4, 53; privilege of, 23; recognition of, 3, 57; regulations, 125; requirement for, 109; residualization of, 160; second-class, 157; security of, 163; spatializing, 160–61; status, 43, 116, 120, 148, 171

city-making, 1, 19, 85, 93, 98, 116, 152, 162, 165; makeshift, 171; migrant, 7, 8, 15, 26; possibilities of, 75; practice of, 27; revanchist, 26

civic life, 64, 85, 93, 149, 158

civil war, 74, 75, 79

Clarke, Nick, 195n13

class, 19, 21, 48, 60, 148, 161, 168

clone-town, 122, 196n21

Close Up at a Distance (Kurgan), 20

Coalition Government, 93

Cochrane, Allan, 195n13

collaboration, 20, 88, 91, 107, 115, 116, 167; barter, 106, 108, 117; multilingual, 106, 117; responsive, 105, 106

Collins, Patricia Hill, 6, 26

colonialism, 2, 15, 48, 54, 69, 120, 152, 154, 156; expansive, 160; histories of, 3; spatial production of, 190n65

coloniality, 3, 69, 85, 152, 157, 198n5

colonization, 4, 21, 64, 85; global connections of, 62; logics of, 28

common good, 163

commons, 160

Commonwealth Immigration Act (1962), 43

communication, 108, 133, 146, 159; modes of, 167; multilingual, 155; transnational, 157

Comprehensive Spending Review, 195n13

conjuncture, 1, 2, 9, 10, 11, 15, 93, 125, 171, 183n24

Conservative Party, 12, 35; Brexit and, 8; immigration and, 37

Conservative Party Manifesto, 37

contestation, 3, 18, 26, 48, 120, 127, 147, 149, 155, 172

conviviality, 19, 26, 95, 168

Corbyn, Jeremy, 38

cosmopolitan, 3, 60, 113, 149

cosmopolitanism, 60, 105, 149

Council of the City of Leicester, 70

Cox, Elizabeth, 147, 198n56

crises, 4, 93, 94, 96, 97, 125, 133, 134, 137, 149, 171; accumulation of, 11, 15, 22; economic, 1, 9; political, 9; social, 22; structural, 163

crossings, 3, 7, 15–21, 48, 49, 76, 157, 169, 170, 171; economies of, 158–59; global/national/urban, 27

culture, 4, 7, 10, 16, 19, 22, 55, 56, 63, 87, 91, 105, 117, 119, 124, 127, 137, 147, 149; aesthetic curation of, 160; coffee, 82, 106, 170; European-American, 193n49; material, 83; multidimensional realms of, 169; public, 163; street, 82

Das Gupta, Monisha, 3, 162, 168, 169

Davies, Jonathan, 183n24

Dawes, Antonia, 106, 180n51

debordering, 154

De Genova, Nicholas, 14, 39, 156, 199n5

deindustrialization, 2, 6, 21, 91, 97, 162, 166, 168; unemployment and, 66, 72; urban, 88

Deliveroo, 6, 18

democracy, 10, 12, 43; condition of, 45; liberal, 48, 69, 153; sovereign, 47

Democratic Paradox, The (Mouffe), 9–10

denizenship, 97, 160–61, 171; precarity and, 2

density, 51, 89, 98, 108, 159, 171

deportation, 32, 39, 161, 163

development, 123, 127, 129; appeals, 167; corporations, 132; urban economic, 124

diasporic, 31, 84

Diawara, Manthia, 55, 185n5

difference, 7, 94, 135, 149, 170; commonality and, 8; differentiation and, 64; plurality and, 137; social, 93, 96

differentiated mobilities, 68, 75

Diop, Wasis, 55

disaccumulation, 21, 104, 105, 153; landscapes of, 88, 102, 115

discrimination, 10, 14, 15, 24, 25, 29, 36, 38, 53, 56, 72, 97, 98, 105, 110, 162, 169; edge economies and, 101; ethnic/racial, 70; indirect, 37; migration and, 9, 28; structural, 6; urban, 148; violence and, 9

dislocation, 49, 125, 154; configuration of, 85; violent logics of, 152

displaceability, 2, 153, 198n1

displacement, 15, 22, 68, 78, 79, 88, 115, 120, 161, 163, 171; challenges of, 57; cultural, 166; economic, 166; global, 3, 48, 125; humanity and, 2; incarcerated, 84; large-scale, 148; planned, 106; political economy of, 21, 24, 152; spaces of, 72

dispossession, 26, 120, 133, 153, 154, 156, 161

diversity, 10, 69, 72, 73, 89; cultural, 64, 93, 123; economic, 93, 123

Dorling, Danny, 11, 14

double migration, 75

Dudley Road, 94, 95, 96

Duggan, Mark, 95, 121

durable inequalities, 64, 101, 121

EasyJet migrants, 99

Economic and Social Research Council, 184n40

economic growth, 11, 14, 15, 103, 105, 125, 165

economic life, 18, 19, 93, 115, 160, 164; ethnic groupings and, 185n8

economics, 1, 86, 94, 124, 147, 149, 156, 159

economy, 63, 117; black, 115; capitalist, 85; cultural, 126; form-filling, 41, 92, 105, 106, 108, 116, 155; global, 112; hawking, 110; hustle, 7, 18, 25, 89, 92, 105, 116, 190n9; illicit, 80; informal, 164; noncapitalist forms of, 92; parallel, 39; plural, 163; political, 1–2, 9, 21, 24–25, 56, 60, 93, 125, 126, 155, 159; postwar, 96

edge, 4–8

edge citizens, 151, 153

edge economies, 21, 22, 24, 87, 95, 106; conceptualizing, 6; discrimination and, 101; entrepreneurs of, 115; locating, 91–94; notion of, 25; race-making and, 115; racialized work and, 6; working-class districts and, 124

Edge of Empire (Jacobs), 154, 199n3

edge populations, 2, 6, 61, 88, 177n3

edge territories, 4, 24, 60, 61, 62, 72, 94, 95, 116, 147–48; austerity governance and, 107; capitalism and, 115; cultural politics within, 124; disaccumulation and, 104; positioning of, 124; power and, 148; self-employment in, 97; street work in, 89; surviving in, 90

Elephant and Castle, 121

Elliott-Cooper, Adam, 95

Empire Windrush (ship), 42

emplacement, 20, 22, 68, 72, 78; urban, 3, 48, 154

employment, 5, 18, 25, 51, 60, 66, 76, 68, 115, 165; contracts, 12; discrimination in, 155; dispossession of, 87–88, 153; epistemology of, 166; factory, 21; full-time, 66; landscape, 66; law, 110; loss of, 43; non-standard, 164; part-time, 14, 63, 170; public, 21, 71, 72; racialized, 6; sectors, 71, 101; short-term, 61; street, 89, 104, 105; undocumented, 61; waged, 71

English as a second language (ESOL), 109

entitlement, 9, 86, 154, 156

entrepreneurs, 6, 24, 33, 61, 89, 90, 101, 113, 115, 116, 121; edge, 167; immigrant, 97; margins and, 62

Erpenbeck, Jenny, 87

errantry, 25, 106

ESOL Citizenship Test Centre, 109

ethics, 107, 116, 171, 182n12, 201n43

ethnic groups, 5, 101; economic life and, 185n8; minority, 14, 95, 97, 103, 104, 179n31, 186n17; work precarity and, 177n10

ethnicity, 9, 13, 28, 105, 127, 153; European border regime, 4; orientation of, 94; sociological themes of, 19

European Economic Area (EEA), 183n24

European Union (EU), 8; citizen inflows to, 34; immigration from, 37–38, 71; immigration outside, 37–38; spatial reality of, 31; UK exit from, 5

evictions, 13, 43, 106, 125

exchange, 15, 16, 17, 31, 85, 113; cultural, 24, 104; social, 109, 165

exclusion, 152, 155; inclusion and, 46; racial, 24

experience, 146; consumer/public, 165; multidimensional realms of, 169; multiplicity of, 160; physical, 81; social, 81, 82–83

experimentation, 18; cultural/spatial, 128; economic, 92; social, 42, 46, 92

exploitation, 48, 88, 91, 105, 117; economic, 161

extraction, 10, 12, 17, 30, 35, 49, 154; geopolitics of, 16

extradition, 110, 162, 163

feminist geographers/geography, 24–25

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (hooks), 59

Ferguson, James, 164, 167

financial crisis (2008), 5, 11, 12, 16, 17, 26, 35, 66, 68, 71, 77, 121, 134

financialization/hyperfinancialization, 120, 121, 125, 148, 154, 161

Financial Times, 64

Floyd, George, 189n63

Foreign Office, 44

fractal precarity, 76

Freemantle, Iriann, 105

Frontex EU, 14

Future for UK Immigration Policy, The (Westminster Legal Policy Forum), 29

Galtung, Johan, 78

gender, 21, 28, 40, 48, 60, 120; migration and, 61; sociological themes of, 19

General Certificate of Secondary Education, 66

general elections, 5, 8, 12, 13, 37

Generation Rent, 195n14

Gentleman, Amelia, 44, 183n33

gentrification, 122, 123, 126, 152; planetary, 122, 123

geographies, 16, 19, 59, 152, 154; borderless, 159; cultural, 7; economic, 93; of interdependence, 4, 48; multiscalar, 59; postcolonial, 149; racialized, 85; street, 112

geopolitics, 15, 16, 68

ghettos/ghettoization, 1, 4, 15, 24, 61

Gibson-Graham, J. K., 24–25, 92

Gidwani, Vinay, 7, 92, 190n1

gig economy, 167, 199n12

Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, 85, 88, 116

Gilroy, Paul, 16, 17

Glissant, Édouard, 25, 60, 106, 159, 160, 185n5, 193n49

global displacement, 3, 48, 86, 125, 154

global financial crisis, 5, 11, 12, 15, 15, 16, 17, 26, 35, 66, 68, 71, 77, 85, 121, 134

globalism, 15, 85

Global North, 7, 13, 24, 93

“Global Sense of Place, A” (Massey), 62

Global South, 7, 24, 93

“Go Home” slogan, 40, 42, 46, 47, 57, 162

Go Home?: The Politics of Immigration Controversies, 46, 180n15

governance, austerity, 93, 95, 107, 121, 154, 162

governmentality, 41, 44, 46

Go Went Gone (Erpenbeck), 87

Greater London Authority, 165

Great Recession, 11, 13, 66, 97, 117, 125

“Great Recession” (Dorling), 14

Griffiths, Peter, 96

Grove-White, Ruth, 40

Guardian, The, 44

gurdwara, 47, 89, 90, 107

Halberstam, Jack, 147, 172

Hall, Stuart, 1, 10, 122–23, 156, 180n51

Handsworth, 94, 95, 97

“Handsworth Revolution” (Steel Pulse), 94

Harney, Stefano, 169

Harvey, David, 120, 124

health care, 15, 36, 43, 108

Henry, Nick, 103

Heygate Estate, 121

hierarchy, 33, 36, 47; social, 153, 157

High Line, 123

High Street London, 130

High Streets for All, 104, 165

hipsterization, 127, 148

Holston, James, 124

Home Office, 23, 30, 39, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 158, 162

hooks, bell, 59, 60, 133

Hopkins, Kelvin, 38

hostile environment, 42, 43, 45

hostility, 30, 32, 39, 42, 45, 56, 153

House Price Index, 121–22, 195n15

housing, 15, 16, 36, 163, 198n53; estates, 14, 127; markets, 155, 195n14; social, 127, 148, 161

Hubbard, Phil, 128

humanity, 15, 45, 48, 49, 153; decentering, 57; displacement and, 2; reduction of, 44; shared, 11, 155; social justice and, 86

human residualization, 2, 120, 153, 160

Hussain, Ajmal, 95, 180n51

ideology, 9, 11, 30, 42, 156; border, 38; group, 94; political, 69

illegality, 31, 39, 42, 44, 156, 157, 158, 169; migrant, 14–15, 23

imagination, 26, 31, 86, 127, 163; global, 103, 119; political, 57, 157, 158

immigration, 35, 43, 44, 46–47, 70, 110, 168; animosity for, 42, 158; controlling, 23, 37–38, 47, 157; policy, 38, 46, 56, 61, 62; politics and, 5; rules, 29, 32–33, 41; services, 39, 41; status, 36

Immigration Act (1971), 43

Immigration Act (2014), 14–15, 29, 30, 36, 75, 79, 89, 106, 158, 183n21; pathologies of, 23, 38–47; qualifiers and, 33

Immigration Act (2016), 14–15, 106, 158; pathologies of, 23, 38–47

Immigration and Asylum Law Project, 44

immigration law, 4, 14–15, 33, 34, 47, 112, 158, 159, 163, 183n21

immobility, 4, 8, 21, 45, 51, 154

imperialism, 152, 154, 156, 160

IM Properties, 104

improvisation, 116, 139, 143, 145, 155, 170, 170, 172

Independence Party, 32

Independent Workers Union of Great Britain, 199n12

industrialization, 6, 16, 21, 36, 64, 88, 91, 166

inequality, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 25, 60, 61, 91, 93, 96, 101, 105, 121, 125, 151, 163; economic, 4, 73; health, 65–66; local, 48; maintaining, 6; protesting, 148; racial, 158; realities of, 133; social, 5, 161; structures of, 171; urban, 122, 148; volatility of, 96

infrastructure, 132, 138, 163, 164, 166; assemblages of, 201n42; human, 47; lively, 94; mandate of, 119, 124; marginal, 115; material, 166; people as, 168; physical, 135; project, 70; religious, 96; rudimentary, 190n12; sociospatial, 107; spatial, 57, 167; symbolic, 94

“Infrastructures of Diversity” (Simone), 119

insecurity, 5, 89, 163, 164

Institute of Race Relations, 43

integration, 78, 79, 194n55

interdependence, 4, 36, 45, 48, 91, 154

intermixtures, cultural, 6, 22, 25, 124, 133, 137

“Interpreting the Crisis” (Hall and Massey), 1

intersectional, 153

intervention, 6, 27, 85, 103, 151, 156; exceptional, 10; geopolitics of, 16; global, 62, 69; political, 4

interventionism, 4, 24, 62

Jackson, Emma, 127, 180n51, 197n34

Jacobs, Jane M., 154

James, Marlon, 1

Jazeel, Tariq, 60, 180n50

Jewish presence, Cheetham Hill, 110–12

John, Peter, 121

Johnson, Boris, 10

Jones, Trevor, 101, 104, 177n10, 186n17

Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 12

journeys, 48, 49, 55, 60, 68, 73, 154, 157; extended, 76; migration, 8, 133, 159; physical, 159

justice: administrative, 41; economic, 95, 147; racial, 172; social, 86, 95, 149, 172

Just Space, 194n8, 197n40, 200n31

Kalra, Virinder, 9, 24

Kapoor, Nisha, 157

Kashmir, 3, 123

Kilburn High Road, 62

King, Julia: illustration by, 51, 52, 53, 54, 69, 77, 83, 100, 111, 114; photo by, 65, 84

Kloosterman, Robert, 25, 61

knowledge: academic production of, 52; power and, 198n56; system, 186n20; Western, 193n49

Kurgan, Laura, 20

labor, 16, 93, 115; global, 12; immigrant, 66; migrant, 5, 97; movement of, 12; process, 7; rights, 159; as surplus, 21; wage, 6, 14, 89, 91; working-class, 96

labor market, 74, 104, 116, 186n17; insecure, 5; nature of, 116; urban, 5

Labour Force Survey, 188n42

Labour Party, 13, 38, 67, 96, 121

Laïcité, 14

Lamko, Koulsy, 55

Lammy, David, 38

Lancione, Michele, 83, 180n50

Landau, Loren, 105

land market, financialization of, 120, 125

Land Registry Data, 195n15

language brokers, 108–9

languages, 17, 32, 76, 77, 78, 99, 108, 112, 155, 172; learning, 3, 86, 109, 159; multiple, 51, 133

Latin Elephant, 200n31

laundromats, 65

Laura Devine Solicitors, 35

Laurie, Nina, 24

Lawrence Hill Ward, 80, 81, 84

Learn Direct, 109

Lees, Loretta, 161

Lefebvre, Henri, 92, 124, 190n1

left behind, 11, 13, 178–79n31

Lega, 11

Legal Action Group, 44

legal aid, 43

Legal Policy Forums, 29, 32, 35

legitimacy, 45; configuring, 31–37

Leicester, 2, 5, 7, 14, 19, 24, 49, 50, 60, 62, 63, 66, 71, 73, 97, 112, 162, 164; East African Asians in, 70; locality of, 68; mills/factories in, 64; postindustrial, 64; proprietors in, 69; residence in, 67–68

Leicester City Council, 70

Leicester City Football Club, 64

Leicester Mercury, 64

Lendlease, redevelopment by, 121

Li, Tania Murray, 164, 167

liberal democracy, 9, 10, 12, 48, 69, 79, 86, 153

liberal paradox, 9

“Life in the UK” test, 109

livelihoods, 1, 8, 25, 26, 27, 28, 64, 77, 85, 96, 101, 153, 155, 162, 166, 169; landscape of, 162; locality, 62, 68, 105; in margins, 107; spaces of, 103; street, 5, 88, 91, 97, 102, 154, 167, 168; urban, 3, 60, 110

London, 2, 5, 7, 19, 24, 26, 49, 50, 63, 95, 119, 120, 121, 122, 127, 130, 132, 134, 144, 147; housing estates of, 14

London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City (Sandhu), 20

London Olympic Park, 130

London Plan, 129

London 2012 Olympic Games, 10

López-Morales, Ernesto, 161

Lozells, 96

Mactaggart, Fiona, 38

Madden, David, 20

Mamdani, Mahmood, 69

Manchester, 2, 5, 7, 14, 19, 24, 41, 49, 50, 62, 71, 88, 89, 90, 91, 109, 111; Jewish settlement in, 110

Manchester Asian Bazaar, 112

Mapping Immigration Controversy (MIC), 46, 184n40, 184n44

Marcinak, Katarzyna, 178n23

marginality, 24, 25, 27, 154, 161, 165; centrality and, 3, 7, 45–46, 59, 60, 152, 155; makings of, 6

marginalization, 4, 6, 11, 25, 61, 63, 65, 66, 84, 101, 105, 110, 117, 148; nexus of, 115; structural, 163; urban, 2, 19, 22, 53, 60, 72–73

margins, 60, 123, 160, 161–62; displacement of, 125–32; entrepreneurs and, 62; interior, 79–85; layering of, 110, 112–15; placing, 59, 85–86; reorganization of, 120, 148; urban, 2, 6, 7, 8, 19, 22, 24, 62, 26, 88, 116, 126, 133, 154, 168; working in, 115–17

market values, units and, 114

Massey, Doreen, 1, 15–16, 17, 75

Massey, Douglas, 15, 62

materiality, 20, 85, 90, 101, 154

May, Theresa, 42, 43, 44, 140, 184n38

Mayblin, Lucy, 188n44

Mbembe, Achille, 115, 158, 169

McCluskey, Len, 12

McDonnell, John, 29, 38

McEwan, Cheryl, 24, 103

McKittrick, Katherine, 54, 55, 66, 169, 170, 177n5, 186n20, 198n56; race/place/violence and, 24

MIC. See Mapping Immigration Controversy

micro-businesses, 66, 99, 102

microeconomies, 15, 165, 166

migrancy, 31, 159, 160, 168, 169

migrants, 33, 39, 44, 56, 108, 153, 172; border and, 2, 4, 21; flows of, 115; harassment of, 29; highly skilled, 23, 32; illegal, 90; legitimacy/illegitimacy of, 32; margin and, 161–62; racialized, 78; scale of, 30, 39, 47, 48; sovereignty and, 1, 162; uncertainty for, 40

Migrants’ Rights Network, 40

migration, 6, 13, 25, 30, 35, 50, 62, 64, 68, 69, 71, 85–86, 88, 93, 156, 159, 160; analysis of, 48, 152; construction of, 31, 153; control, 15, 21, 23, 31, 32, 66, 171; crisis, 10, 55; definition of, 2, 169; discourse, 23–24; discrimination and, 9; double, 75; engaging in, 8–9; global, 19, 22, 34, 53, 60, 73, 106; historical, 8, 22, 115–16; law, 109; mobility and, 36; multiple, 78, 79, 159; net, 32, 34, 35; patterns, 9, 19, 34, 36; policy briefings on, 20; politics of, 38, 54; regimes, 67, 76, 78, 86; routes, 7, 33; rules for, 31–32; scientific, 34, 39, 54; systems, 4, 8, 21, 22, 59, 85, 158, 171; thinking about, 38; understanding, 57

Migration Research Unit (University College London), 33

“Migration Statistics Quarterly Report,” 71

militarization, 14

Minimum Income Standard, 12, 40

Ministry of Utmost Happiness, The (Roy), 151

minority groups, 3, 4, 66, 68, 129

mixed embeddedness, 25, 61, 185n8

mobility, 4, 8, 17, 36, 115; differentiated, 68, 75; human, 20, 34, 49, 55, 56; infrastructures of, 78; multiplicity and, 3; problematic, 35; professional, 50–51; restricting, 86; social, 21

Monrose, Kenny, 190n9

Moore, Robert, 110

Morrison, Toni, 33

Moten, Fred, 169

Mouffe, Chantal, 9–10, 163

movement, 25, 86, 158, 160; cultural, 31; (il)legalization of, 153; rights of, 11

multicultures, 19, 26, 61, 62, 91, 94, 106, 133, 136, 168; loose, 148; marginalized, 6; urban, 27, 149

multilingualism, 76, 108, 133, 152

multiplicity, 49, 60, 160, 172, 185n5; mobility and, 3

multiscalar, 16, 31, 39, 48, 49, 153, 154

mutualisms, 140; urban, 138, 139, 142, 145

Narborough Road, 7, 24, 49, 60, 62, 63, 73, 97, 108, 134, 152, 162; diversity on, 69; fieldwork on, 64; proprietors on, 68–69, 69, 70, 85; restaurants/carryouts on, 65; street life on, 70; traders on, 167; as transitional area, 67; world-to-street drawing of, 53

Narkowicz, Kaisa, 157

National Health Insurance, 108

National Health Service (NHS), 10, 12, 42

nationhood, 9, 10, 13, 161

nationalism, 9, 10, 99, 157; borders and, 8; neoliberalism and, 151

National Landlords Association, 36–37

nativism, 5, 11, 57, 157, 160, 162

Nayak, Anoop, 133

necropolitics, 79

neoliberalism, 18, 47, 151, 160, 168, 183n24

net migration numbers, 21, 23, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 45, 71

networks: ethnic, 24; global/local, 25; social, 91; street, 18; support, 76; trade, 21, 76

New Economics Foundation, 147, 196n21

new urban frontier, 125, 127, 133

“Next Steps for Immigration Policy—Regulation, Enforcement, and the Immigration Bill,” 29

NHS. See National Health Service

Noronha, Luke de, 184n37

Nuttall, Sarah, 169, 180n50

Obama, Barack, 82

ocean vocabularies, 16

Old Jewish Quarter, 110

Old Kent Road, 128

Ondaatje, Michael, 17

One World in Relation (Glissant), 185n5

Ong, Aihwa, 180n49, 180n50

“Opaque Architectures” (Tayob), 20

Opera of the World, An (film), 55

Ordinary Streets (film), 175

Ordinary Streets project, 175, 197n40

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 14

Organization of African Unity, 82

Palominos, Nicolas: illustration by, 131, 138, 142

participation, 53, 133, 160; modes of, 18; social, 104

Partij voor de Vrijheid, 11

“Pay as You Earn,” 104

Peckham, 120, 121, 122, 123, 127, 132, 135, 136; Georgian/Victorian, 128; property values in, 124, 134; residential densities of, 130; urban margins of, 126; vertical transformation and, 124

Peckham Coal Line, 123

Peckham Rye Common, 128

Peckham Rye station, 143

Peckham Town Centre, 126, 128, 134; businesses in, 130; margins of, 123; revitalization for, 122; and Westfield Stratford City compared, 131

Peckham Vision, 197n40

Peddimore Industrial Estate, 104

Perera, Jessica, 14, 194n5

periphery, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 17, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 47, 59, 60, 61, 74, 84, 86, 88, 91, 104, 116, 120–21, 140, 154, 165

personhood, 87, 152

Piper, Brian, 70

place, 6, 61, 88, 186n20; black sense of, 24; global sense of, 68, 72, 85

place-making, 7, 59, 197n34

planetary, 16, 20, 26, 28, 31, 48, 49, 93, 122, 123, 149, 152, 159, 160, 165

planning, 20, 104, 106, 107, 115, 161, 162, 164, 166; cultural/economic values and, 120; entrepreneurial, 126; fugitive practices of, 147; process, 85, 120, 167; state recognition and, 165; street, 165; systems, 103, 105, 147

policy, 30, 85, 104, 135, 140; forums, 32; mismanagement of, 45; place of, 63–73; public, 41; social, 30; street, 165

political economy, 1–2, 9, 24, 30, 56, 60, 87, 93, 119, 125, 126, 152, 155, 159

politics, 4, 11, 12, 18, 19, 26, 30, 31, 39, 46, 48, 54, 86, 123, 126, 133, 149, 160; austerity, 62; border, 1, 124; contemporary, 22; cultural, 34, 124, 154; divestment, 91; election, 35, 158; everyday, 124, 137; far-right, 93; of fear, 9, 15; frictional, 62; immigration and, 5; national, 97; organized, 159–60; party, 38; redistributive, 163; social, 26; street, 56

Pollard, Jane, 24, 103

population: churn, 67–68; dynamics, 46; edge, 61, 88; immigration, 46; residential, 67; stratification of, 160

populism, 2, 9, 123, 152

postcolonial/postcolonialism, 93, 154, 156, 199n3

Pound Shop, 64–65

poverty, 5, 66, 107, 161

power, 62, 132; constitutions of, 153; edge territories and, 148; knowledge and, 198n56; political/economic, 153; relations, 48; spatial conditions of, 60; whereness of, 73; worlding and, 180n49

precarity, 61, 90, 113, 115, 146, 160, 164, 167; denizenship and, 2; ethnic groups and, 177n10; flexibility and, 141; fractal, 76; increase in, 163; labor, 163

profiteering, 7, 18, 79, 84, 88

property: markets, 8, 126; purchasing, 110; rates, 166; speculation, 171; systems, 147; urban, 125

proprietors, 18, 68–69; financial crisis and, 68; journey of, 69

protocols, 39, 135, 136, 137, 143, 149, 168

provincialize, 18

provisional/provisionality, 17, 18, 60, 88, 90, 92, 168, 191n15

public services, 24, 39, 43, 110, 154, 161, 165

Qureshi, Fizza, 29

race, 15, 21, 24, 28, 45, 48, 60, 88, 90, 120, 135, 148, 161, 168; construction of, 6, 53; edge economies and, 115; interconnectedness of, 186n20; manipulation of, 13; notion of, 9; performativity of, 183–84n35; prejudices of, 14; racism and, 2; sociological themes of, 19; thinking, 153–54

racecraft, 9, 22

racialization, 14, 40, 49, 52, 62, 68, 85, 96, 154, 157, 168

racism, 2, 12, 19, 23, 40, 46, 47, 70, 88, 91, 93, 95, 96, 97, 117, 168; construction of, 53; deep, 171; pluralities of, 6; resistance to, 133, 192n28, 194n1; street, 60

Ram, Monder, 104, 177n10, 186n17

Rassemblement National, 11

Rath, Jan, 25, 61

Reading the Riots (Lewis et al.), 95

recession, 17, 94–99, 101–5

reconfiguration, 19, 27, 116, 117, 137, 170; interior, 139, 143; social/economic, 115

redevelopment, 26, 108, 126, 143, 161; communicating, 134; urban, 129

redundancy, 3, 5, 91; routes to, 73–79

refuge, 10, 16, 31, 57, 160, 165

refugees, 14, 61, 69, 71, 188n41, 188n42

refusal, 3, 8, 43, 62, 132, 133, 149, 153, 172, 194n1

regeneration, 5, 104, 115, 123, 161, 162, 168; displacement and, 125; planned, 106; resistance to, 194n1; rhetoric, 122

regulation, 15, 27, 40, 74, 85, 88, 103, 119, 146, 153, 159, 171; business, 75, 77; citizenship, 125; migration, 41, 66, 92, 157; municipal, 8; street-level, 21

religion, 14, 105, 106, 135, 145

remittances, 21, 73, 80, 89, 92, 130, 141–42, 143

rentals, 13, 83, 99, 110, 114, 133, 134, 140, 141, 143, 149, 166, 170

repair, 31, 91, 116, 166, 167, 172

repertoire, 3, 17, 20, 24, 25, 35, 47, 60, 76, 89, 90, 91, 108, 113, 116, 119, 133, 151, 152, 155, 156, 167, 171, 172; of resistance, 91

resistance, 123, 133, 172; collective, 124; exploration of, 26; transformative acts of, 106–7; unheroic, 147–49

resources, 94, 105, 113, 116, 166; access to, 51; combining, 107; cultural, 7, 26; migrant, 109; public, 163; social, 89; socioeconomic, 103; sourcing/scrimping/combining, 90

restaurants, 47, 65, 80, 97, 98, 112; photo of, 65

Rethinking Racial Capitalism (Bhattacharyya), 21

Revitalise: Peckham and Nunhead Area Action Plan (Southwark Council), 122, 134

rewiring, 137–41, 143–47, 170

rewording, 169, 170, 172

Rex, John, 110

rhetoric, 8, 10, 14, 23, 45, 79, 122, 171; government, 46; political, 11, 158

“Right to Rent” check, 36

“right to the city” legacy, 124

riots, 94, 95–96

Robinson, Cedric, 72

Robinson, Jennifer, 103, 180n50

Rolnik, Raquel, 120, 161

Rookery Road, 7, 24, 25, 49, 90, 91, 92, 93, 96, 103, 107, 109, 121, 134, 152, 162; domestic fabric of, 105; economic role of, 98, 101; Handsworth and, 94; local value of, 132; materiality of, 101; proprietors on, 104; shops on, 97, 99; social economies of, 88, 102; street uses on, 100; world-to-street drawing of, 51

Roy, Anaya, 66, 78, 120, 180n50

Roy, Arundhati, 151, 152

Rubin, Margot, 140, 198n53

Rudd, Amber, 45, 184n38

Rye Lane, 7, 24, 49, 121, 133, 135, 146, 152, 165, 167, 169, 171; Bellenden Road and, 128; development of, 123, 127; economic value and, 126; interest groups on, 137; mapping of, 140; pressure on, 136; property values on, 162; protest on, 148; research on, 127, 129, 132, 144; retail on, 123, 130; revitalization and, 122; rewiring on, 170; shops on, 126, 134, 139, 141, 142, 143, 145, 147; socioeconomic life of, 129; spaces on, 138, 166; street life of, 120; traders on, 149; urban mutualisms on, 138; world-to-street drawing of, 50

Said, Edward, 26

salons, 7, 65, 80, 81, 99, 140, 144

Salt, John, 33, 34

Sandhu, Sukhdev, 20

Sassen, Saskia, 125–26

scale of the migrant, 23, 30, 39, 44, 47, 48, 49, 56, 86, 155

Schiller, Nina Glick, 7

Scott, James, 124

security, 14, 89, 109, 120, 141, 163, 164

segregation, 40, 88, 119; logics of, 22, 48; social/urban, 20; sovereignty and, 48

self-employment, 5, 6, 14, 21, 66, 68, 72, 83, 86, 87, 91, 97, 113, 115, 116, 124, 162, 164; wages of, 89

“sham marriages,” 32, 33, 79

Shaw, Wendy, 129

Shin, Hyun Bang, 161

shops, 82, 85, 101, 133, 144; barber, 65, 99; betting, 89; book, 65; charity, 130; computer, 72; curio, 81; immigration, 109; interiors of, 139, 143, 147; music, 65; photo of, 84, 141; setting up, 69; size of, 114; stationery, 65

Shrubsole, Guy, 121

Simone, Abdou Maliq, 17, 18, 119, 124, 165, 168, 171, 180n50

Sinha, Shamser, 51

Skinner, Dennis, 38

Slater, Tom, 126

slavery, 16, 33, 84

Smith, Neil, 125–26, 133

social life, 20, 49, 56, 81, 87

social media, 167

socioeconomic, 22, 94, 102, 103, 104, 122, 124, 126, 129, 132, 165

sociomaterial, 90

sociospatial, 22, 83, 107, 161, 190n12

Soho Road, 102, 107

Southernness, 166

Soja, Ed, 187n40

solidarity, 25, 106, 136, 148; antiracist, 94; of emotions, 55; everyday, 137; flexible, 26; international, 172

sorting, 158; social, 20, 73, 85, 153

Soundings, 1

Southwark, 127; housing in, 121–22, 195n16

Southwark Council, 121, 122, 126, 146

Southwark Council and Overview Committee, 147

Southwark Local Authority, 122

sovereignty, 8, 31, 36, 85; logics of, 22, 28, 48; presumption of, 45; segregation and, 48

space, 8, 19, 38, 56, 99, 103, 113, 137–38, 149; city, 161; decommodification of, 159; domestic, 5, 167; economic, 18, 147; global, 2, 22; ground-floor, 130; industrial, 167; management, 106; multipliers of, 140; national, 2, 22; peripheral, 2; public, 5, 18, 165, 172; racialized, 40, 85, 124; retail, 114, 123, 130, 141, 167; sharing, 140; shop, 62, 85, 89, 139, 170; social, 82, 190n1; subdivisions of, 119; urban, 2, 22, 25, 26, 120, 126, 161; white, 52

spatial liberalism, 121

spatial practices, 13, 31, 90, 115, 132, 133, 138–39

Stapleton Road, 7, 24, 49, 60, 134, 152, 162, 169, 170; coffee culture of, 106; material culture of, 83, 85; migrations to, 76, 77; proprietors on, 76, 78; rents on, 80; routes to, 157; shops on, 73, 77, 79, 80, 81, 83, 84; world-to-street drawing of, 52

state and street, 1, 2, 4, 22, 47, 53, 119, 146, 166

Stenning, Alison, 24

stigma, 80, 128; politics of, 126; sociology of, 126

Stratford Metropolitan Masterplan, 130

street: assistance, 108; capacities, 167; complexity of, 116; encounters, 56; scale of, 47–51; as world, 152–55

street economies, 4, 56, 89, 90, 94, 102, 107, 109, 116–17; complexity of, 18; research on, 30

street life, 22–28, 56, 120, 123

street uses, 100, 111

structural violence, 62, 78, 79, 95, 171

subdivisions, sketch of, 143

subordination, 4, 15, 16, 22, 24, 116, 153; domination and, 60; ethos of, 9; projects of, 86

superstores, 114

targets/migration targets, 23, 32, 34, 35, 45

Taylor, Damilola, 128, 129

Taylor, Myfanwy, 88, 124

Tayob, Huda, 20, 48, 132, 180n50

technology, 5–6, 55, 103

Telegraph, The, 128

temporalities, 31, 48, 60, 62, 67, 68, 74, 85, 99, 132, 149, 164, 171

tenancy, 36, 108, 113

tenure, 90, 139, 141, 163, 164, 166, 167, 169, 170; reinventions of, 119

Thomas, Robert, 41

Tiger Developments, 123

Tilbury Docks, 42

Toffa, Sadiq: illustration by, 50

Tomlinson, Joe, 41

trade, 21, 76, 113, 135; maintaining, 133; retail, 130; street, 50, 89, 101

trade associations, 132, 135, 136, 155, 170

Trade Union Congress, 192n25

trade unions, 6, 12, 91, 96, 124

Trading Standards, 146

transaction, 7, 17, 22, 24, 56, 60, 61, 82, 85, 93, 98, 106; economic, 21; everyday, 5, 27, 168; social, 92; street, 88, 91

transformation, 19, 108, 121, 124, 128, 130

transition zones, 17, 67

transnationalism, 87, 157

travel, 35, 73, 107, 156, 157, 169

Trump, Donald J., 192n25

twilight zones, 94, 96, 107, 110, 115

Tyler, Imogen, 78, 178n23

Uber, 6, 18

Uganda Argus, 70

Ugandan Resettlement Board, 70

uncertainty, 39, 40, 41, 81, 92, 170, 172, 200n20; maintaining, 6; timescape of, 163

Underhill, Lord Justice, 41

unemployment, 49, 71, 88, 154, 164; deindustrialization and, 66, 72; long-term, 63

unfreedom, 61, 158, 169

Unite (trade union), 12

units, market values and, 114

UN Refugee Agency, 188n41

Uphill, Carolyn, 36

uprising, 94, 95, 121, 170, 192n32

urban: belonging, 145; financialization of, 148; formation, 166; practice, 165; seeing, 90

urbanization, 16, 19, 36, 164

urbicide, 80, 186n20

Valdez Young, Adriana: illustration by, 131; photo by, 141

Valluvan, Sivamohan, 9, 180n51

values, 132, 145, 149; British, 18, 78; cultural, 120, 128, 129, 144; economic, 120, 126, 129; exchange, 121; land, 90, 143, 170; property, 124, 128, 134, 139, 140, 162; social, 20, 129, 144; socioeconomic, 104, 165

Van Der Leun, Joanne, 25, 61

vantage points, 48, 52–57

Vasudevan, Alexander, 90, 180n50

VAT, 104, 193n44

Venice Biennale, 123

Vertovec, Steven, 72

violence, 24, 36, 43, 67, 73, 158, 160; border, 171; commitment to, 38; discrimination and, 9; human movement and, 79; interethnic, 96; racial, 85, 95; state, 31, 66; structural, 62, 78, 95, 171

Virdee, Satnam, 6, 66, 68, 90, 91, 168

visas, 38, 40, 41, 51, 61, 78, 79, 108, 156, 157, 159; extension of, 109

vocabulary, 143; hybrid, 106; planning, 127; standardized, 92

Wachsmuth, David, 20

Wallerstein, Immanuel, 185n1

Webber, Francis, 43

welfare, 6, 14, 41, 106, 109, 154, 161; forms, 89; social, 92

Wemyss, Georgie, 191n14

West, Cornel, 162, 187n23

Westcotes Ward, 65, 66, 67–68

West End, 63

West End Traders, 108

Western Union, 134

Westfield Stratford City, 130; and Peckham Town Centre compared, 131

Westfield Stratford City Shopping Centre, 130

Westminster Forum Project, 182n2

Westminster Legal Policy Forum, 29

WeWork, 171

wharfs, 16, 17

whiteness, 3, 13, 19, 45, 53, 120, 129, 148, 155, 169

Williams, Raymond, 56

Wilson, Paulette, 44

Windrush scandal, 40, 42, 44, 45, 47, 57, 162

Wood Immigration Removal Centre, 43

work. See employment

worlding, 19, 180n49

world-making, 152, 157

Wynter, Sylvia, 54, 55

xenophobia, 46, 93, 160

Yiftachel, Oren, 2, 153, 198n1

Younge, Gary, 38

Yuval-Davis, Nira, 191n14

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The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges financial support for the open-access edition of this title from the UK Research and Innovation Body, in connection with an ESRC grant (ES/L009560/1).

Portions of chapters 2 and 3 were previously published as “Migrant Margins: The Streetlife of Discrimination,” The Sociological Review 65, no. 5 (2018): 968–83; copyright 2018 by Suzanne M. Hall. Portions of chapter 4 were previously published as “Migrant Urbanisms: Ordinary Cities and Everyday Resistance,” Sociology 49, no. 5 (2015): 853–69.

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