ABSTRACT
Whether as wage labourers, restaurant owners, or music and dance performers, migrants are now part of the natural appearance of cosmopolitan global cities. The ‘world in one city’ (Collins and Castillo 1998) is a result of globalization both ‘from above’ and ‘from below’ (Guarnizo and Smith 1998; see also Sassen and Roost 1999). But the integration of migrants into cosmopolitan cities is not a simple or uniform process. Research has repeatedly shown how national frameworks stand in the way of immigrant incorporation (Brubaker 1992) and how local policies can play crucial roles in negotiating the status of migrants (Ireland 1994).
