Migrants in the City

Join us on a mini fieldtrip to the  “border” inside metro Phoenix. We take the border as a zone of interaction where the US and another country come together, intersect, butt up against or bleed into each other, whether in an easy blend or a contentious edginess. Here we track ways that migrants have created such social/geographical “border” spaces throughout the Phoenix metro area.   Click markers on the map to cross borders in the city with us!

The global city concentrates diversity. Its spaces are inscribed with the dominant corporate culture

but also with a multiplicity of other cultures and identities, notably through immigration.

Saskia Sassen, "The City: Strategic Site, New Frontier"