The Global Ethnopole in the Global City

Abstract

The focus of this book on the global ethnopole develops a new approach to the study of the urban ethnic community or the immigrant enclave by paying as much attention to its local as to its transnational relations and global articulations. It unveils the global dimension of the local place as something intrinsic to its everyday life.¹⁵⁰ This globality, with its multitude of temporalities, is not imposed on the local, but instead has always been part of its trajectory. Such a global process affects segments of the local community differently, because of the different ways the latter becomes embedded in the former. There is much diversity in the expression of that globality at the local level as a result of multiple temporalities of social action, spatial practices, generational positions, and class status. Thus, the ethriopole is a vivid spatial expression of the social reproduction of the articulation between the global and the local.