GeMIC / Urban Spaces and Movements
Synthesis Report – Urban Intercultural Spaces and Movements
Download the report
One of the main findings of the present research is that citizenship practices led by the migrant population are produced at multiple scales and involve multiple public spheres that cross national borders and renegotiate relations between their homes in origin and in destination. This suggests that citizenship practices exceed the limits and jurisdictions of the nation-state. more .. »
objectives
* to study formal and informal practices of assimilation, integration, and/or marginalization as well as forms of resistance to established power relations in urban spaces and social movements, and assess their impact on gender relations. <--more-->
Italy – Report on Urban Spaces and Movements
Download the report
Transnational mobility is a structural date of contemporaneity. Based on this assumption, migration problematizes the traditional concept of neighborhood and local space. The fieldwork highlights the explosion of the neighborhood-form in which there is a intricate relationship between place of residence and citizenship, place of family, place of sociality, and often the workplace. Bolognina, the space of our case study, has become an urban hub, continuously transformed by mobility – both transnational mobility and the mobility within the city.
more .. »
Spain – Report on Urban Spaces and Movements
Download the report
The purpose of this research is to analyse the role of urban public spaces in the creation of intercultural and social inclusion/exclusion relations. We focus on the use and appropriation of these spaces from a gender approach that considers specifically the experiences of migrant families. Besides, we use the feminist concept of positionality to understand how the social situatedness of migrants conditions their practices of citizenship (gender, ethnicity, education, immigration status, social class, age and generations, length of stay, and migration experiences).
No tags were found that match the criteria given.
Greece – Report on Urban Spaces and Movements
Download the report
According to the law, the people who have talked to us are “aliens”, irrespective of whether they have legal papers or not, they have no formal “right to the city”. But their regular and embodied presence and practices in the neighbourhood and beyond create space for them. Gender differences come out prominently in this respect: it is women rather than men who engage in those everyday routines which contribute to form familiar spaces in the unfamiliar city.
Women walk the streets of the neighbourhood and cross the square innumerable times in order to go to work and do their daily chores, they take children to school, to the day care, to the doctor, they take frequently to the square their own children, they escort some elderly person they may be looking after as live-in carers, they do the shopping in local shops and super markets, stop at the bakery or the local kiosk, they share time with neighbours.
