This timely book offers an integrative and critical approach to the
conceptualization of diversity of social ties in contemporary urban
migrant populations. It explores the informal relationships of
migrants in London and how the construction and the dynamics of
their social ties function as a part of urban sociality within the
super-diversity of London. Based on the results of a qualitative
study of Russian-speaking migrants, it targets the four main themes
of transnationalism, ethnicity, cosmopolitanization, and
friendship. Acknowledging the complexity of the ways in which
contemporary migrants rely on social relationships, the author
argues that this complexity cannot be fully grasped by theories of
transnationalism or explanations of ethnic communities alone.
Instead, one can gather a closer understanding of migrant sociality
when adding the analysis of informal relationships in different
locations and with different subjects. This book suggests that
friendship should be seen as an important concept for all research
on migrant social connections.
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