Ordinary Places of Postmigrant Societies: Dealing with Difference in West and East German Neighbourhoods

Abstract: The starting point of the contribution is the question of how the dynamics of social encounters in the city are shaped by specific migration histories, local discourses, economies and policies. Against this background, the article analyses the perceptions and localised practices in dealing with social difference and diversity in a comparison of East and West German neighbourhoods. However, this is not about a hierarchizing evaluation, but about understanding urban encounters in the migration society as contestations of social and class recognition, which are played out at different levels and in specific urban places. Based on narrative interviews and field observations, it is shown how urban coexistence is experienced and negotiated in everyday settings between routines and new conflicts. A postmigrant perspective - as a heuristic point of entry - aims to take hegemonic understandings of societal belonging and exclusion under migration-related conditions into question

Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
Notes
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Urban Planning ; 5 (2020) 3 ; 115-126

Classification
Geschichte Deutschlands

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(who)
SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
(when)
2020
Creator
Wiest, Karin

DOI
10.17645/up.v5i3.2960
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021101307371765209242
Rights
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Associated

  • Wiest, Karin
  • SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.

Time of origin

  • 2020

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