Chapter
1. Stories of migration, displacement, community resistance and solidarity
Research- and experience-based evidence
2. Explaining migration and displacement
Different theoretical approaches
World cities, global cities and women’s migration patterns
Competing migration theories
Migration, diasporas and cultural change
Contemporary versions of forcible displacements?
Migrants and their communities
3. Responses to being displaced by violence
Defining displacement as a result of violence
British communities’ own experiences of displacement as a result of violence
Refugee communities’ responses to new arrivals
4. Community responses to displacement as a result of (re)development
Development and redevelopment: definitions and approaches
Responses to displacement: examples from India
Responses in urban redevelopment contexts
Community responses to redevelopment in contemporary London
Reflecting on community-based responses to (re)development more generally
5. Responses to displacement via market forces more generally
Community-based resistance in the recent past
Supporting people in their attempts to avoid displacement and dispossession
Community resistance campaigns
From ‘perfect storm’ to ‘perfect tsunami’?
Wider theoretical implications? Reflecting on varying experiences
6. Choices and constraints
Free will or determinism?
Resisting being kept in one’s place?
Agency and/or structure and displacement
Public policies and choices too?
Popular education for social transformation
7. The slippery concept of ‘community’, both locally and transnationally
Differing definitions and varying usages
Starting from Raymond Williams’ approach
Community and public policy
Community formation – and re-formation – in response to displacement and dispossession
How have these outcomes been affected by public policies?
What about market forces?
‘Communities’ and processes of change: widening definitions and approaches?
8. Public policies to promote community cohesion
What do policy-makers have in mind, in terms of promoting ‘community cohesion’?
Towards more ‘cohesive communities’?
Preventing violent extremism and/or reinforcing neoliberalism?
Towards more promising practices?
Developing common understandings of communities and change in the global context
Linking the personal and the political
Sharing understandings – convincingly?
Developing alliances across differences of organisational culture and style
Community arts and social change
Changing communities
：Stories of migration, displacement and solidarities
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