Cities concentrate new racialized migrant populations that both coalesce and are represented there

Evidence

Such weakenings of national ties are linked directly to the new flows of global migrant labor (Sassen, 1999) which both rely on cities as the reference points in which newly racialized populations coalesce, and amplify the city as a representational site of refugee presence personified through beggars in streets and claimants in the town hall. The three pieces of the jigsaw - landscape, technology, and iconic characters - can be manipulated precisely because of the cultural depths of race thinking and city talk on which they draw. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2295

Categorization

• XREF: Aligns with Saskia Sassen’s global-city thesis on migrant labor flows.