'Ethnic' neighbourhoods? Practices of belonging and claims to the city

Kalandides, A; Vaiou, D

dc.contributor.author	Kalandides, A	en
dc.contributor.author	Vaiou, D	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T02:08:53Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T02:08:53Z
dc.date.issued	2012	en
dc.identifier.issn	09697764	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/29742
dc.subject	Athens	en
dc.subject	belonging	en
dc.subject	Berlin	en
dc.subject	migration	en
dc.subject	neighbourhood	en
dc.subject.other	citizenship	en
dc.subject.other	ethnicity	en
dc.subject.other	human rights	en
dc.subject.other	migration	en
dc.subject.other	nation state	en
dc.subject.other	neighborhood	en
dc.subject.other	participatory approach	en
dc.subject.other	public sector	en
dc.subject.other	racial disparity	en
dc.subject.other	urban society	en
dc.subject.other	Athens [Attica]	en
dc.subject.other	Attica	en
dc.subject.other	Berlin	en
dc.subject.other	Germany	en
dc.subject.other	Greece	en
dc.title	'Ethnic' neighbourhoods? Practices of belonging and claims to the city	en
heal.type	journalArticle	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1177/0969776412438328	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969776412438328	en
heal.publicationDate	2012	en
heal.abstract	The formation or consolidation of 'ethnic' neighbourhoods in European cities has made ethnic/racial differences more visible in urban space and has brought back to the forefront of both academic and political debate questions about the spatial concentration of 'strangers' (segregation), citizenship rights and 'integration'. The women and men who live in the city have, or may claim, a right to the city that includes on the one hand the right to appropriate urban space and on the other hand the right to participate in its production and in decisions about it but also in (re)defining patterns of living it. In this context, migrants reconfigure the meanings of belonging against dominant spatializations through their everyday practices. Moreover, more or less institutionalized forms of political participation create new spatial levels of citizenship not limited to the scale of the nation-state. Interactions among migrants and locals continuously redefine the subject of rights as they activate processes of access, participation and inclusion/exclusion in/from the urban public sphere. This paper discusses these processes and terms, drawing on examples from Berlin and Athens. We focus in particular on neighbouring as the space and resource of belonging and on how this is related to participation and urban citizenship. The two cities offer different contexts in which institutional policies, informal practices and claims for participation at the neighbourhood level define, in different ways, citizenship as a spatial strategy and help qualify the content of the 'right to the city'. © The Author(s) 2012.	en
heal.journalName	European Urban and Regional Studies	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1177/0969776412438328	en
dc.identifier.volume	19	en
dc.identifier.issue	3	en
dc.identifier.spage	254	en
dc.identifier.epage	266	en