Recent theoretical and methodological advances in urban sociology, including spatially located data, provide new opportunities to consider the joint influence of mobility and place …
HF Wilson - Progress in Human Geography, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The notion of encounter has been used widely within work on urban diversity and socio- cultural difference, yet it remains under-theorized. This paper argues that 'encounter'is a …
MP Kwan - Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Many fundamental notions in geographic and social science research still tend to be conceptualized largely in static spatial terms, ignoring how our understanding of the issues …
For several decades, Mexican immigrants in the United States have outnumbered those from any other country. Though the economy increasingly needs their labor, many remain …
The authors acknowledge that their" view [for the open, multicultural city] is prescriptive, culturally bound, and Western". Their view is that the" secular humanism position" which has …
The immigration patterns of the last three decades have profoundly changed nearly every aspect of life in the United States. What do those changes mean for the most established …
Even as multiculturalism is condemned as a failure by national leaders in a number of countries, urban residents live successfully in cities of ethnic and racialized difference. This …
MP Kwan, T Schwanen - Annals of the American Association of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This introductory piece sets the context for the special issue and explains its rationale. It offers a series of reflections on the rise of the mobilities turn and its relations with preexisting …
While the literature clearly acknowledges that individuals may experience different levels of segregation across their various socio-geographical spaces, most measures of segregation …