TRANSNATIONALISM AND MULTICULTURALISM IN GLOBALISING CITIES Prof John Eade CRONEM

 Changing Division of Labour within Global Capitalism – Industrialism and Post-Industrialism, Fordism and Post- Fordism  Globalisation – The Flows of Capital, Goods, People, Ideologies and Information

 Globalisation and Urbanisation  Globalisation, Megalopolis and Global Cities  Saskia Sassen - Post-Colonial City Competition and the Global Disjuncture between Dispersed Production and Centralised Services

 Global Elites, Fiscal Inducements and Lifestyle in Globalising Cities  The Limits of Economism and the Need for Sociological and Anthropological Research  Globalising Cities and Areas Servicing the New Order of Global Capital

The European Region  Central High-Level Service Cities (London, Paris, Frankfurt, Brussels, Amsterdam)  Gateway Cities (Berlin, Vienna, Barcelona, Warsaw)

The European Region  Smaller Capitals and Provincial Capitals (Dublin, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Krakow)  County Towns in Highly Networked ‘Mega’ City Regions

The Limits of the Sociological Gaze  Quantitative and Qualitative Research has focussed on Poor Multicultural Communities in Globalising Cities  What about Powerful Transnational Elites and Their Relationship to Nation-States?

The European Region – Two Transnational Case Studies  British Bangladeshis in East London – Economic Class and Social Status, Politics and Religion  Recent Polish Migrants in London – Class and Keeping the Options Open; Ethnicity, Race and Religion

 Assimilation, Multiculturalism and Transnationalism – Constructing a National Majority in Globalising Cities  Future Trends? Constructing National Subjects within ‘Fortress Europe’ The Tensions between Class, Ethnicity and Race in the Context of Transnationalism