Inter-Group Relations and Migrant Integration in European Cities

IMISCOE Research Series Ferruccio Pastore Irene Ponzo Editors Inter-group Relations and Migrant Integration in European Cities Changing Neighbourhoods IMISCOE Research Series This series is the offi cial book series of IMISCOE, the largest network of excellence on migration and diversity in the world. It comprises publications which present empirical and theoretical research on different aspects of international migration. The authors are all specialists, and the publications a rich source of information for researchers and others involved in international migration studies. The series is published under the editorial supervision of the IMISCOE Editorial Committee which includes leading scholars from all over Europe. The series, which contains more than eighty titles already, is internationally peer reviewed which ensures that the book published in this series continue to present excellent academic standards and scholarly quality. Most of the books are available open access. For information on how to submit a book proposal, please visit: http://www. imiscoe.org/publications/how-to-submit-a-book-proposal. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13502 Ferruccio Pastore • Irene Ponzo Editors Inter-group Relations and Migrant Integration in European Cities Changing Neighbourhoods “Co-funded by the European Union” Editors Ferruccio Pastore Irene Ponzo FIERI FIERI Torino , Italy Torino , Italy The original project ‘Concordia Discors. Understanding Confl ict and Integration Outcomes of Inter-Group Relations and Integration Policies in Selected Neighbourhoods of Five European Cities’ has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication refl ects the views only of the authors, and the European Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. 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Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Contents Introduction .................................................................................................... 1 Ferruccio Pastore and Irene Ponzo They’ve Got Their Wine Bars, We’ve Got Our Pubs’: Housing, Diversity and Community in Two South London Neighbourhoods ............................................................................... 19 Ole Jensen and Ben Gidley Rise and Resolution of Ethnic Conflicts in Nuremberg Neighbourhoods ............................................................................................. 39 Claudia Köhler Comfortably Invisible: The Life of Chinese Migrants Around ‘The Four Tigers Market’ in Budapest .......................................... 69 Boglárka Szalai and Krisztina La-Torre Inter-Group Perceptions and Representations in Two Barcelona Neighbourhoods: Poble Sec and Sagrada Família Compared ................................................................... 89 Ricard Morén-Alegret Albert Mas and Dawid Wladyka Turin in Transition: Shifting Boundaries in Two Post-Industrial Neighbourhoods ................................................................... 123 Pietro Cingolani News Media and Immigration in the EU: Where and How the Local Dimension Matters ........................................... 151 Andrea Pogliano v vi Contents Boundaries, Barriers and Bridges: Comparative Findings from European Neighbourhoods .................................................. 177 Ferruccio Pastore and Irene Ponzo Annex 1: The Investigated Urban Contexts. Comparative Tables ....................................................................................... 201 Annex 2: Methodological Annex ................................................................... 213 Introduction Ferruccio Pastore and Irene Ponzo 1 Tackling the Dilemma of Local Variations in Ethnic Confl ict and Integration This is a book about social change in European cities as brought about by international migration. Among the many aspects of such long and complex waves of transformations what interests us in particular is how relations are structured and how they evolve in different and increasingly diverse local societies. The main research questions addressed in this book are thus the following ones: why do origin- based categories emerge much more clearly and powerfully as practical and symbolical boundaries in certain local contexts rather than in others within the same national and regional space or even within the same city? How much do urban contexts count in shaping inter-group relations and specifi cally in making ethnic categories more or less salient? Given the fact that central aspects of our research questions, such as relations between the majority population, immigrants and their descendants and the salience of ethnic boundaries are generally considered to be key dimensions of integration processes though with a different emphasis in American and European literature (Gans 1992 ; Portes and Zhou 1993 ; Massey 1995 ; Esser 2001 ; Entzinger and Biezeveld 2003 ; Alba and Nee 2003 ; Zincone 2009 ), this is also meant to be a vol- ume on immigrant integration in European cities. Since ethnic tensions and confl ict have been a major concern in the urban policies of several European cities over the last two decades, we pay special attention to these dynamics in our understanding of integration. Specifi cally, though we agree Ferruccio Pastore is the author of Sects. 1 and 4 , Irene Ponzo of Sects. 2 and 3 . F. Pastore (*) • I. Ponzo FIERI , Torino , Italy e-mail: ferruccio.pastore@fi eri.it; ponzo@fi eri.it © The Author(s) 2016 1 F. Pastore, I. Ponzo (eds.), Inter-group Relations and Migrant Integration in European Cities, IMISCOE Research Series, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-23096-2_1 2 F. Pastore and I. Ponzo that positive relations and loss in salience of ethnic boundaries are crucial aspects of successful integration, we understand the latter not as a rigid state of peaceful coex- istence conceptually opposed to confl ict but as a dynamic achievement, a process that implies ongoing negotiations on the idea of ‘us’, whereby re-negotiation is pos- sible. Accordingly the research project upon which this book is based is titled ‘Concordia Discors’, 1 an expression originating in the epistles of the Latin poet Horace, now paradigmatic of a dynamic state of ‘discordant harmony’. Actually, the idea that confl ict is part of the dynamic process of social change that integration entails has belonged to the sociology of migration since the very beginning. The school of urban ecology of the University of Chicago, which began to deal with immigration in the early 1920s as part of an analysis of urban transformations, maintained that confl ict does not necessarily have negative implications but, on the contrary, is an important step of the integration process through which groups become aware of their identity and their specifi c needs, and are able to make claims in terms of access to resources and rights (Park and Burgess 1921 ). However, in distinction to the Chicago school, here the function of confl ict in the process of integration is not taken for granted or located within a staged path. We started from the assumption that confl ict does not always progressively disappear and sometimes breaks out, even suddenly. Confl ict can sometimes be an opportunity to know each other, to cross and eventually change group boundaries

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