Uneven geographies of asylum accommodation: Conceptualizing the impact of spatial, material, and institutional differences on (un)familiarity between asylum seekers and local residents
| Autor: | Zill, M.O., van Liempt, I.C., Spierings, B., Hooimeijer, P., Social Urban Transitions, Urban Accessibility and Social Inclusion, Urban Living and Social Networks |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
everyday social relations
material and institutional openness business.industry Refugee 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography asylum accommodation 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Criminology spatial Political science Taverne (un)familiarity business 050703 geography Accommodation Demography |
| Zdroj: | Migration Studies, 8(4), 491. Oxford University Press |
| ISSN: | 2049-5846 2049-5838 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/migration/mny049 |
| Popis: | Asylum accommodation is held to isolate asylum seekers spatially and socially from the majority population in host societies. Little attention has been devoted to variation in asylum accommodation at the level of the everyday. Central to this paper is the argument that variation between localities, as well as variation on the level of the built environment creates ‘uneven geographies of asylum accommodation’. The paper theorizes that more ‘open’ forms of asylum accommodation may foster familiarity between asylum seekers and local residents through the development of closer everyday social relations, and more ‘closed’ forms of asylum accommodation may enforce feelings of unfamiliarity by strengthening processes of categorization and everyday bordering. In so doing, we propose to differentiate between ‘spatial’, ‘material’ and ‘institutional’ dimensions of openness of asylum accommodation and aim to understand ‘(un)familiarity’ as expression of people’s experiences, knowledge and perceptions of social distance. We further argue that feelings of (un)familiarity are connected to processes of belonging and estrangement. |
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