CITYSCALERS

Many cities today highlight their diversity - mostly cultural diversity - as part of the struggle through which they (re)position themselves in relation to other cities both within and across state boundaries. Cities are constantly reinventing their diversities and migrants are one of the crucial actors of this process. This project is a comparative analysis of the ways cultural diversity, migrant incorporation and transnational networks and the processe of urban renewal become intimately intermeshed in the context of neoliberal urbanism. It explores the relationship between the dynamic restructuring of urban life and the variation in migrants' insertion into local economies and politics within a global perspective in cities of different scale, namely in Vienna, Berlin, and Budapest.