L’accueil des migrant·e·s dans les espaces de marges. Regards croisés sur des villages de Calabre et du Limousin

Welcoming, Revitalising, Re-Growing? Refugee Arrival and Urban Development in Shrinking Cities

“…Be it through resettlement, national dispersal schemes or because available housing and lower costs of living facilitate arrival, refugees increasingly settle in places affected by demographic and economic decline. As cities are attested an increasing role in refugee integration (see Doomernik and Ardon, 2018), much recent literature in migration studies has investigated refugee arrival in nonmetropolitan areas, including rural spaces (Berthomière et al, 2020;Berthomière et al, 2021;Ristic, 2020) declining villages (Arfaoui, 2020), or mountain regions (Del Biaggio et al, 2020), and has focussed on various aspects of local migration governance, for example housing in small-and medium-sized cities (Gardesse, 2020). 10 However, far less attention was paid to cities affected by urban decline (for exceptions see Pottie-Sherman, 2018;Schemschat, 2021).…”