Description
Forms of urban displacement related to housing affect a range of subjects, moving our understanding of mobility beyond the statist dichotomy of “migrants” and “citizens”. The term “evictability”, for instance, captures a common vulnerability to being removed from a sheltering place (Van Baar 2017; De Genova et al., 2021). Both migrants and some formal citizens can be affected by “enforced” or “unfree” mobility (Yildiz & De Genova 2018), whether through involuntary asylum dispersal (Darling 2022), ‘renoviction’ or displacement by estate regeneration (Pull 2020; Watt 2018; 2022), or enforcement measures taken to move street homeless people on (Johnsen et al 2020) or destroy informal dwelling places (Benyera & Nyere 2015; Annunziata 2020).There is also an emerging recognition within migration studies that common mechanisms of marginalisation exist between social groups that are conventionally studied in siloes. This recognition makes space for the emergence of new solidarities across such categories as citizen and non-citizen, migration and class (Anderson 2013; Vickers 2020). It offers potential to unite precarious citizens and immigrants in a common struggle for social justice, in the face of national governments that polarise these groups through scapegoating and discourses of deservingness.
Resonating with calls to ‘de-migrantize’ research on migration (Dahinden 2016), and to ‘de-exceptionalise displacement’ (Anderson 2021), this panel explores commonalities in the experience of non-voluntary mobilities at the sub-national level among international migrants and autochthons alike, drawing attention to the struggles faced by those who find themselves moved by housing-related policies, systems and processes beyond their control.
| Period | 3 Jul 2024 |
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| Event type | Other |
| Location | Lisbon, PortugalShow on map |
Research Themes
- Migration (In)Equality and Belonging
- Governance, Leadership and Trust