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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"urban displacement"”.
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Everyday Humanitarians: the act of refugee hosting in protracted urban displacement in Amman, Jordan
… as humanitarian and scholarly focus shifts to urban displacement. Despite this, there has been little research into refugee hosting. In this thesis, I explore what constitutes the act of refugee hosting at the household-level in protracted urban displacement. Refugee hosting relationships are …
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Land use planning innovations in the midst of a 'Migration Crisis' : developing a spatial definition of refugee integration
… 2016 Global Trends Report, global human displacement is at a record high and refugee crises are increasingly urban. Research on forced migration has historically focused on the obligations of the nation state, overshadowing the role of cities in urban displacement. Using the conceptual …
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Reclaiming the spatial imaginary: a photovoice study of resistance to displacement in Woodstock, Cape Town
… by colonial- and apartheid-era patterns of urban displacement that are exacerbated by gentrification. Low-income tenants’ and evictees’ experiences of displacement and its resistance have social, spatial, psychological, and political components. Examining these components can contribute to …
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The campaign for the tenant right to purchase in Greater Boston
… is ongoing. To better understand why the urban displacement crisis has not resulted in stronger legal protections for tenants, and to offer strategies for change, I analyze this campaign as an extended case study on the nature of power in state and local governance. I argue that Lukes' …
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URBAN EXILES. MIGRATION GOVERNANCE, ASYLUM, DISPLACEMENT AND SEGREGATION IN ATHENS.
… the appearance of new figures of segregation and displacement following the turn in European migration governance. As new governmental instruments of containment, dispersal and concentration combine, new geographies of mobility and immobility (Tazzioli & Garelli, 2018) gradually reshape the spaces …
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Sites of migrant landing: (un)braiding topographies of relations across hair salons in Mowbray
… migrants try to find grounding in their new urban contexts. The dissertation's centring of the hair salon is a Black reading of space that facilitates porous mobilities through social relations and networks informed and maintained by African migrant women. Going beyond characterisations as …
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State-led urban development, displacement, resettlement, and livelihoods from a complexity perspective: A case study of Thu Thiem, Vietnam
Urban development has displaced millions and caused widespread impoverishment across the world. Most literature investigates this problem using an "inadequate-input" approach, which attributes failures in livelihood restoration for displaced people to a lack of input investment, e.g. resources and …
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State-led urban development, displacement, resettlement, and livelihoods from a complexity perspective: A case study of Thu Thiem, Vietnam
Urban development has displaced millions and caused widespread impoverishment across the world. Most literature investigates this problem using an "inadequate-input" approach, which attributes failures in livelihood restoration for displaced people to a lack of input investment, e.g. resources and …