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Reinventing the Johannesburg inner city

The study of migration within geography takes a variety of forms. While geographers
traditionally studied push and pull factors in migration, this approach
was challenged for its reliance on quantitative methods and its emphasis on economic
factors. New approaches to the study of migration in geography have thus incorporated
qualitative techniques and focused on migrant identities and migrant
subjectivities. They have also provided new theorizations of the relationship
between mobility and belonging, particularly through the concepts of transnationalism
and translocalism, and through scales of belonging that range from
citizenship to the home. Despite claims of the demise of the nation-state under
globalization, the role of the nation-state in regulating migration and migrants,
and in managing and policing borders, highlights its ongoing importance.
Similarly, the potential centrality of place to the ongoing study of migration is
highlighted by recent research on cities and regions. This foregrounds the negotiated
and mutable nature of place in the context of transformations at a variety
of interconnected scales.

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