{"product_id":"9781118750636","title":"Cities and Social Movements: Immigrant Rights Activism in the US, France, and the Netherlands, 1970-2015","description":"\u003cp\u003eThrough historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, \u003ci\u003eCities and Social Movements\u003c\/i\u003e examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do – or don’t – develop into large and sustained mobilizations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents a comprehensive, comparative analysis of immigrant rights politics in three countries over a period of five decades, providing vivid accounts of the processes through which immigrants activists challenged or confirmed the status quo\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTheorizes movements from the bottom-up, presenting an urban grassroots account in order to identify how movement networks emerge or fall apart\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a unique contribution by examining how geography is implicated in the evolution of social movements, discovering how and why the networks constituting movements grow by tracing where they develop\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDemonstrates how efforts to enforce national borders trigger countless resistances and shows how some environments provide the relational opportunities to nurture these small resistances into sustained mobilizations\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten to appeal to a broad audience of students, scholars, policy makers, and activists, without sacrificing theoretical rigor\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130287800560,"sku":"9781118750636","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781118750636_p0.jpg?v=1763695384","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781118750636","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}