Ethno-Architecture and the Politics of Migration, edited by Mirjana Lozanovska, is a welcome addition to a growing literature on informal urbanism, cultural difference, and embodied placemaking.1 The collection of essays draws attention to the impact of migration on the making and remaking of places, whether at the scale of the home, street, neighborhood, city, or beyond. While the topic of global migration has been discussed and debated in other fields for some time, it is only within the past ten years that migration has fully entered into architectural discourse, as evidenced by several recent articles in this journal. This delay may be due to the fact that the politics of migration confronts the boundaries between the global and the local, memory, and the imagination, which problematizes historical understandings of architecture. As a collection of "counter-narratives of twenty-first-century vernacular" (226), the essays in the book challenge not only the way we think about the ordinary and the everyday in architecture and the built environment but also how identity and belonging are negotiated in space and time.
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