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Navigating Brussels’ “bubble(s)”. Privileged migrants’ perceptions of (super)-diversity in the EU capital and its implications on migrant othering and solidarity
[en] While the mediatization and the politization of the management of the European Union's physical borders has been exacerbated by the refugee reception crisis of 2015-2016, the expansion of 'symbolic' boundaries – which materialize through exclusionary attitudes towards migrants – deserves further attention, considering their crucial implications on social cohesion. This communication is based on a PhD thesis which more largely investigates the perceptions of (privileged) migrants from Italy, Greece, and Turkey living in Brussels vis-à-vis migrants and immigration in both their host and home countries. Drawing from 51 semi-structured in-depth interviews conducted between November 2020 and March 2022, I more specifically analyze in this paper the extent to which respondents’ experiences and perceptions of (super-) diversity lead to intergroup contact and further affect their ingroup/outgroup othering and solidarity discourses and practices.
Research Center/Unit :
Hugo Observatory
Disciplines :
Sociology & social sciences
Author, co-author :
Hut, Elodie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Sphères ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géographie > Service de géographie rurale (Laboratoire pour l'analyse des lieux, des paysages et des campagnes européennes LAPLEC) ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Faculté des Sciences Sociales > Form. doct. sc. pol. & soc. (ISHS - paysage) ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Faculté des Sciences Sociales > Doct. sc. pol. & soc. (ISHS - paysage)
Language :
English
Title :
Navigating Brussels’ “bubble(s)”. Privileged migrants’ perceptions of (super)-diversity in the EU capital and its implications on migrant othering and solidarity
Publication date :
18 April 2022
Number of pages :
11
Event name :
Séminaire doctoral EDTSS "Migrations et Diversité culturelle"
Event organizer :
Centre d’Etudes de l'Ethnicité et des Migrations (CEDEM)
Event place :
Liège, Belgium
Event date :
27-28 avril 2022
Audience :
International
Development Goals :
10. Reduced inequalities 11. Sustainable cities and communities