Envisioning place: urban sociabilities within time, space and multiscalar power

Schiller, Nina Glick; Schmidt, Garbi

doi:10.1080/1070289x.2015.1016524

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“…Instead, in this paper, we focus on two super diverse cities, Paris, France and Berlin, Germany, to show how second generation immigrants who are ethnic minorities negotiate a sense of belonging to the city and the neighborhood in which they live, despite persistent exclusion from mainstream society. Focusing on the local level also allows us to analyze migrants and their descendants' agency in shaping the city and neighborhoods, something still lacking in much urban scholarship (Glick Schiller & Schmidt, 2016;Glick Schiller & Çağlar, 2009). Specifically, we ask how do middle-class ethnic second-generation populations, children of North African immigrants in France and children of Turkish immigrants in Germany, negotiate their relationships to the urban environments in which they live amid racism and exclusion from the state?…”

Section: Sense Of Belonging and Attachment To Place In Super-diverse CImentioning

confidence: 99%

Living for the neighbourhood: marginalization and belonging for the second-generation in Berlin and Paris

Barwick

Beaman

2019

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In this paper, based on qualitative research on the North African second-generation in Paris and the Turkish second-generation in Berlin, we discuss ethnic minorities' attachment to place and how living in highly diverse cities shape their perceptions and experiences of marginalization and belonging. Even though France and Germany have different state-level approaches to citizenship and belonging, the experiences of marginalization and exclusion of the second generation in the city are rather similar. In both societies, ethnic and religious minorities such as the North African or Turkish second-generation are excluded from mainstream society. This exclusion is experienced on the local level. Thereby the geography of Berlin and Paris impacts ethnic secondgeneration populations' feeling of belonging to the communities in which they live, as well as how they understand their experiences of racism and exclusion. This research has implications for understanding the multivariate experiences of middle-class secondgeneration ethnic populations across Europe.

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Section: Sense Of Belonging and Attachment To Place In Super-diverse CImentioning

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Living for the neighbourhood: marginalization and belonging for the second-generation in Berlin and Paris

Barwick

Beaman

2019

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“…Instead, they have focused on the study of migrants in the urban context especially through the prism of the concept of 'diversity', 'super-diversity', 'everyday multiculturalism ', etc. (Glick Schiller and Çağlar 2016;Glick Schiller and Schmidt 2016;Vertovec 2007). Although these analyses are instructive in many ways, they still contain some theoretical flaws and do not go far enough in rebuffing methodological nationalism.…”

Section: Scalar Theory and Urban Sociabilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…By introducing the new analytical categories of 'super-diversity' or 'everyday multiculturalism', it still emphasises the salience of cultural boundaries. Moreover, by focusing on encountering difference, it suggests that diversity is a problem and a potential threat to national cohesion (Glick Schiller and Çağlar 2008, 2009, 2016Glick Schiller and Schmidt 2016). Furthermore, it must be added that concepts such as 'super-diversity' or 'everyday multiculturalism' are not so useful for a study of migration in post-socialist settings, especially in the context of town and cities of the WSEZ.…”

Section: Scalar Theory and Urban Sociabilitiesmentioning

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Patterns of Middling Migrant Sociabilities: a Case Study of a Disempowered City and Towns

Jaskułowski

2019

Int. Migration & Integration

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Drawing on scalar theory of locality and the concept of urban sociabilities, this paper discusses sociabilities, social encounters based on domains of commonality, between middling migrants and local inhabitants in three different settings in Poland. At the same time, however, the paper points out to the feeling of strangeness and otherness experienced by migrants due to cultural and social distance. In contrast to mainstream literature that concentrates on low-skilled migrants or elite professionals in global cities, the article focuses on middling migrants in two disempowered towns (Jelcz-Laskowice and Strzelin) and one city (Opole) within the Walbrzych Special Economic Zone in Poland. It shows the particularities of urban sociabilities in locations that lack wellestablished migrant communities and have peripheral status in the global economy.

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“…And finally, another factor to consider in this redistribution of inhabitants is the increase in 'squatters' occupying homes, a social movement which arose from the precarious situation in which the poorer sectors of society found themselves or those who had been marginalised due to personal circumstances. This situation of living outside the law attracts other activities of the same nature, thus generating a flow between the progressive abandonment of homes and the rise in criminal activities -drugs, alcohol, delinquency -which simply serve to increase the difficult situation of those residents who live in such accommodation on a permanent basis [5]. Thus, an undesirable habitat is created for the younger generation living there, they lack motivation for personal development or for pursuing job opportunities.…”

Section: Benidorm Urban Contextmentioning

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Social Conflicts in Coastal Touristic Cities. Holistic Renovation of Buildings in Benidorm

ECHARRI¹,

MAS²

2016

WIT Transactions on State-of-the-Art in Science and Engineering

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Mediterranean Touristic populated areas in the 70s pose great disadvantages when it comes to renovating. The transformation of such tourist resorts into permanent residence implies problems derived from the lack of design flexibility, excess of regulation and environmental issues. These holiday apartments, due to their dimensions and current conditions, are quite economical within the current housing market. However, the problems mentioned above can be seen when one has a close look at the high energetic consumption, the small dimension of the inhabited places, the lack of security against fire and the low level of hygrothermal comfort.Benidorm underwent a large development in the 70s. As many other coastal Mediterranean cities, it has problems in providing its citizens and tourists with their needs. Many conflicts arise from sharing a common space, like the ones abovementioned. It is also worth mentioning that inhabited flats and houses have originated several social problems.This paper intends to show a holistic strategy of intervention in a specific building that can also be implemented in other blocks of flats. This intervention is meant to redistribute the building both internally and externally, so the useful floor area is increased. Security in case of fire is solved by adding a second staircase, with two evacuation routes. There will also be a renovation with a new structural framework that will give a better climatic regulation function, and thus better energy efficiency. Besides, action will be taken over the resort gardens to produce a sustainable building outlook. In this way, there will be an improvement in the quality of life of the permanent employees working for the big number of tourists in this city. Keywords: cultural heritage, landscape planning and design, quality of life, urban safety and security.

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Envisioning place: urban sociabilities within time, space and multiscalar power

Cited by 30 publications

References 36 publications

Living for the neighbourhood: marginalization and belonging for the second-generation in Berlin and Paris

Living for the neighbourhood: marginalization and belonging for the second-generation in Berlin and Paris

Patterns of Middling Migrant Sociabilities: a Case Study of a Disempowered City and Towns

Social Conflicts in Coastal Touristic Cities. Holistic Renovation of Buildings in Benidorm

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