The Migrant's Paradox by Suzanne M. Hall;

Author:Suzanne M. Hall; [Hall, Suzanne M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SOC026000 Social Science / Sociology / General
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

The Layering of the Margins

Manchester is shaped by long histories of migration that have intersected with patterns of urban marginalization. The history of street trade in Cheetham Hill reveals two key features, connected to low entry-level urban land markets outside of the city center and discriminatory limitations in access to trade. Predating John Rex and Robert Moore’s conceptualization of the urban “twilight zone,” the Old Jewish Quarter in Cheetham Hill, which emerged at the turn of the twentieth century, was characterized by its peripheral urban locality, low-entry rentals and property prices, and a prohibition on Jewish people from trading in the city center. The Old Jewish Quarter was “a poor district of ‘shelved streets’ stretching down from Cheetham Hill Road to the railway and the River Irk. Badly built and heavily polluted, immigrants could find cheap accommodation for which there was no competition, near to the synagogue and other communal facilities established by earlier settlers.”52 The first Jewish traveling settlement in Manchester in the 1740s was oriented around a peddler and hawking economy at a time when the Jewish population in Britain was denied political rights and the legal ability to purchase property or to participate in certain trades in certain localities. Their itinerant mercantile practices ultimately transitioned into small shops initially rented and eventually purchased in marginalized parts of the city like Cheetham Hill.

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