The third ‘register’ the collection engages with are cities as sites of translocality
par excellence harbouring places of origin, settlement, resettlement and transit.
Situated within the intersections between place and displacement, location and
mobility, settlement and return, cities are critical to the construction of migrant
landscapes and the ways in which they reflect and influence migratory movements,
politics, identities, and narratives. Indeed, as Chacko’s chapter emphasizes,
translocality is evoked through multiple flows between Ethiopia/Addis Ababa to
the United States, secondary migration between U.S. cities, as well as mobility
between different neighbourhoods in Washington D.C. In turn, cities become sites
of encounters with those who are different from oneself and they provide spatial
contexts in which specific attitudes and behaviours towards others are produced
and practised. Attitudes such as these towards ‘others’ are shaped by the triviality
of conducting everyday practices of living and working, by ‘building bridges