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Editor's Note

Editor's Note everal articles in this issue of City & Society explore different experiences of migration. The related articles by Reynolds and Youngstedt compare two very different groups of transnational African migrants. Igbo migrants from Nigeria and Hausa migrants from Niger have created distinct global diaspora communities that not only make use of different features of the global capitalist economy, but also take advantage of different forms of modern communications technology to maintain contact with one another. The article by Tandogan and Incirlioglu highlights a different kind of migration: that of expatriates from various parts of the world who have come to teach in Ankara, Turkey. Each of these articles illuminates different facets of the opportunities, limitations, and challenges people encounter when they leave home to live and work elsewhere. They offer reflections on the protean concept of “home” that can further ongoing discussions about factors that facilitate or inhibit the construction of various kinds of cosmopolitanism. Guano’s article approaches the issue of migration from yet another perspective, considering ways in which the sinking fortunes of the Buenos Aires middle class have promoted interpretations of their urban experiences that relabel and scapegoat the poor as illegitimate migrants from “outside.” Kim Hopper’s remarks in response to his receipt of the 2003 SUNTA Leeds Prize for his book Reckoning with Homelessness resonate well with Guano’s observations. Finally, we include in this issue the first photo essay to be published in City & Society: Jeffrey Ehrenreich’s stunning work on costumed Mardi Gras performers in New Orleans. Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed some changes on the publication information for the journal. With this issue, City & Society begins the transition to full participation in the AAA’s new electronic anthropology portal, AnthroSource. The journal is now published by the University of California Press, and beginning next year, will be included in the very powerfully searchable online selection of AAA journals. We look forward to this adventure and to the opportunities that online access will provide to all of us. City & Society, Vol. 16, Issue 1, p. 1, ISSN 0893-0465, online ISSN 1548-744X. © 2004 by the American Anthropological Association. All rights reserved. Send requests for permission to reprint to: Rights and Permissions, University of California Press, Journals Division, 2000 Center Street, Suite 303, Berkeley, CA 94704-1223. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

Editor's Note

SCHULTZ, EMILY A.
City & Society , Volume 16 (1) – Jun 1, 2004
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everal articles in this issue of City & Society explore different experiences of migration. The related articles by Reynolds and Youngstedt compare two very different groups of transnational African migrants. Igbo migrants from Nigeria and Hausa migrants from Niger have created distinct global diaspora communities that not only make use of different features of the global capitalist economy, but also take advantage of different forms of modern communications technology to maintain contact with one another. The article by Tandogan and Incirlioglu highlights a different kind of migration: that of expatriates from various parts of the world who have come to teach in Ankara, Turkey. Each of these articles illuminates different facets of the opportunities, limitations, and challenges people encounter when they leave home to live and work elsewhere. They offer reflections on the protean concept of “home” that can further ongoing discussions about factors that facilitate or inhibit the construction of various kinds of cosmopolitanism. Guano’s article approaches the issue of migration from yet another perspective, considering ways in which the sinking fortunes of the Buenos Aires middle class have promoted interpretations of their urban experiences that relabel and scapegoat the poor as illegitimate migrants from “outside.” Kim Hopper’s remarks in response to his receipt of the 2003 SUNTA Leeds Prize for his book Reckoning with Homelessness resonate well with Guano’s observations. Finally, we include in this issue the first photo essay to be published in City & Society: Jeffrey Ehrenreich’s stunning work on costumed Mardi Gras performers in New Orleans. Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed some changes on the publication information for the journal. With this issue, City & Society begins the transition to full participation in the AAA’s new electronic anthropology portal, AnthroSource. The journal is now published by the University of California Press, and beginning next year, will be included in the very powerfully searchable online selection of AAA journals. We look forward to this adventure and to the opportunities that online access will provide to all of us. City & Society, Vol. 16, Issue 1, p. 1, ISSN 0893-0465, online ISSN 1548-744X. © 2004 by the American Anthropological Association. All rights reserved. Send requests for permission to reprint to: Rights and Permissions, University of California Press, Journals Division, 2000 Center Street, Suite 303, Berkeley, CA 94704-1223.

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