Rust and Reinvention:Im/migration and urban change in the American Rust Belt pdf download.
Immigration represents a promising counter-narrative for Rust Belt cities in the 21st century.
Increasingly,both immigrants and refugees are part of the comeback stories of Northeastern andMidwestern cities from Buffalo,to Dayton and Pittsburgh.This review explores recent researchin urban geography and allied disciplines focusing on the international migration patterns,
processes,and politics reshaping the urban geography of the American Rust Belt.Recent
research sheds crucial light on how im/migrant lives are reshaping urban landscapes of Rust Beltcities,and conversely,how local immigration policies in these cities are rearranging the unevengeographies of immigrant receptivity across the U.S.Overall,this review highlights the
limitations of the singular spatial imaginary of the Rust Belt advanced previously by manyurbanists.Rather,this review illustrates the rich,complex,and tangled contemporary spatialnuances associated with international migration in this region.These spatial nuances are
complicated by increasingly exclusionary immigration policy and rhetoric at the federal levelsince January of 2017.