ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on routes to and around variously defined 'immigrant districts' in Paris, Oslo, and Naples. From individuals on the street, such as sidewalk vendors, to comprehensive, self-sufficient ethnic enclaves, migrants have throughout history changed the socioeconomic character of cities around the world. The increasingly rapid pace of these flows of humanity requires new methods for capturing and analyzing data. This visually enhanced, auto-ethnographic chapter synthesizes ways of looking at migrants in three very different European cities: Oslo, Norway; Paris, France; and Naples, Italy. When their best practices are firmly anchored in theory, method, and data they can continue to make important contributions to contemporary urban studies. Mobility and motility are also important considerations for ethnography in that Michel de Certeau wrote of creating the city in the act of walking, just as ethnographers create urban society by weaving critical ideas into their narratives of the places through which they pass.
