MIGRATION AND URBAN REGENERATION

With regard to the impact of transnational migration on urban transformations, the public and mainstream policies tend to stigmatize, exoticize, or conceive of the areas with high  concentration of migrant population as sources of segregation, or of tourist attractions. As opposed to this, the aim of Periféria Center is to disclose the agency and active participation of migrants, with particular attention to migrant entrepreneurs in urban regeneration processes. More specifically, our goal is to present the interplay between migration and the renewal of those brownfield areas, and precincts of shrinking cities which keep struggling with the acute shortage of large scale capital investments. We are to point out the significant role that the local, small scale investments of the frequently stigmatized groups of minorities play in urban transformations.