It’s significant that one of the first issues of this newly born journal on urban studies is devoted to migration. Indeed, it’s a commonplace notion that cities have been formed due to migration, and as a result, the first studied form of migration was mobility between rural and urban areas. Even now, we rarely speak of migration in contexts apart from the city — and we rarely speak of global cities without mentioning migration. The tight bond between migration and the city has largely remained in the background, however, and knowledge about it has been fragmentary and dispersed across disciplines. The goal of this special issue of Urban Studies and Practices is ambitious, as it aims to build bridges between these “isles of knowledge” — researchers from multiple disciplines, working in different countries, as well as practitioners.
Anna Rocheva and Evgeni Varshaver
