This book analyses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on three ethnic minorities in three European cities: Bangladeshi in London, Turks in Stuttgart and Peruvians in Milan. Considerable debate has emerged during the pandemic concerning its impact on minorities, and although considerable quantitative data has been generated by epidemiologists, qualitative studies also have great relevance, socially and culturally as well as institutionally. While in normal circumstances the position of migrant communities is associated with unequal access to scarce resources such as wealth, power and social prestige, the coronavirus pandemic shifted the focus to more specific variables: living in segmented or overcrowded conditions, working in jobs with higher risk exposure, difficulties with online schooling, and lack of access to health care and information.

The book will therefore be of interest to researchers and students of sociology, anthropology, global studies, migration and urban studies.  

Marco Caselli is Professor in Sociology, Sociology of Cooperation and Methodology of Social Research at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy.

Jörg Dürrschmidt is Professor of Sociology and co-director of IAF (Institute for Applied Research) at the University of Applied Sciences Ludwigsburg, Germany.

John Eade is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Univ of Roehampton, and Visiting Professor, Toronto University, Canada. 

1: Introduction: state capacity, capacity to aspire,& layered resilience during a pandemic.- 2: Bangladeshis in London and Tower Hamlets: Community activism and the local state.- 3: Turkish Migration in Stuttgart: Potential and limits of integrationism.- 4: Peruvians in Milan: Subsidiarity the Other Way Round.- 5: Migrant mediators as promoters of social cohesion during the pandemic: An analysis of  the mutual learning process.- 6: Resisting, Reacting and Reinventing: Exploring the  Role of Minority Religious Solidarities in Milan and London during the Pandemic.-  7: The importance of urban culture as a middle ground between state and ethnic  minorities in negotiating (im)mobilities: The London context.- 8: Good (local)  Governance and State Capacity: Continuity and difference in times of pandemic and beyond.- 9: Conclusion: Towards a sociological understanding of layered resilience.