This volume explores the mutually transformative relations between
migrants and port cities. Throughout the ages of sail and steam,
port cities served as nodes of long-distance transmissions and
exchanges. Commercial goods, people, animals, seeds, bacteria and
viruses; technological and scientific knowledge and fashions all
arrived in, and moved through, these microcosms of the global.
Migrants made vital contributions to the construction of the
urban-maritime world in terms of the built environment, the
particular sociocultural milieu, and contemporary representations
of these spaces. Port cities, in turn, conditioned the lives of
these mobile people, be they seafarers, traders, passers-through,
or people in search of a new home. By focusing on migrants-their
actions and how they were acted upon-the authors seek to capture
the contradictions and complexities that characterized port cities:
mobility and immobility, acceptance and rejection, nationalism and
cosmopolitanism, diversity and homogeneity, segregation and
interaction. The book offers a wide geographical perspective,
covering port cities on three continents. Its chapters deal with
agency in a widened sense, considering the activities of
individuals and collectives as well as the decisive impact of
sailing and steamboats, trains, the built environment, goods or
microbes in shaping urban-maritime spaces.
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