Getting on regardless? The tripartite model of migrants’ welcome in the context of urban inequalities and diversification

ZANA VATHI, SAMANTHA CARNEY

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Abstract

This paper utilises Lefebvre’s conceptual triad of space to propose a model of migrants’ welcome. This model’s application in the context of migration in urban areas requires a simultaneous engagement with social practices, representation and representational aspects of space, countering this way an otherwise essentialised notion of welcome. Utilising this framework in our research with migrants and non-migrant residents in five boroughs in Liverpool, UK, showed that welcome rests on the plane of urban inequalities, which affect the ethics of sharing resources, accepting and enabling the other. A multi-scalar dialectical dynamic of welcome emerges between the discursive notions of welcome as deployed in the everyday encounters and the way welcome is experienced and rephrased in the public domain or lamented in the private one. Dispersal and urban planning policies should regard migrants as stakeholders of welcome at local level for the purpose of migrants’ inclusion and managing social change.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-22
Number of pages22
JournalEthnic and Racial Studies
Early online date8 Aug 2023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Aug 2023

Keywords

  • Asylum seekers and refugees
  • Liverpool
  • conviviality
  • encounter
  • urban space
  • welcome

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