Suzanne M. Hall, "The Migrant's Paradox: Street Livelihoods and Marginal Citizenship in Britain" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
In this richly observed account of migrant shopkeepers in five cities in the United Kingdom, Suzanne Hall examines the brutal contradictions of sovereignty and capitalism in the formation of street livelihoods in the urban margins. Hall locates\xa0The Migrant's Paradox: Street Livelihoods and Marginal Citizenship in Britain\xa0(University of Minnesota Press, 2021) on streets in the far-flung parts of de-industrialized peripheries, where jobs are hard to come by and the impacts of historic state underinvestment are deeply felt.\nDrawing on hundreds of in-person interviews on streets in Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester, London, and Manchester, Hall brings together histories of colonization with current forms of coloniality. Her six-year project spans the combined impacts of the 2008 financial crisis, austerity governance, punitive immigration laws and the Brexit Referendum, and processes of state-sanctioned regeneration. She incorporates the spaces of shops, conference halls, and planning offices to capture how official border talk overlaps with everyday formations of work and belonging on the street.\nOriginal and ambitious, Hall\u2019s work complicates understandings of migrants, demonstrating how migrant journeys and claims to space illuminate the relations between global displacement and urban emplacement. In articulating \u201ca citizenship of the edge\u201d as an adaptive and audacious mode of belonging, she shows how sovereignty and inequality are maintained and refuted.\nSuzanne M. Hall\xa0is associate professor of sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she codirects the Cities Programme. She is the author of\xa0City, Street and Citizen: The Measure of the Ordinary\xa0and co-editor of\xa0The Sage Handbook of the 21st Century City.\nAlize Ar\u0131can\xa0is an incoming Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers University's Center for Cultural Analysis. She is an anthropologist whose research focuses on urban renewal, futurity, care, and migration in Istanbul, Turkey. Her work has been featured in\xa0Current Anthropology,\xa0City & Society,\xa0Radical Housing Journal, and\xa0entanglements: experiments in multimodal ethnography.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law