URBAN TRANSFORMATION AND MIGRATION
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.
Outcomes
Chinese "Golden Visa" Migrants in Budapest
2021. Szabó, Linda, F. Beck, and E. Knyihár.
In: Global Dialogue 2021 April 28-29.
Gentrification of Józsefváros and Its Detrimental Effects on Local Minorities.
2015. Szabó, Linda. In Minority Rights Group International (ed.) State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2015: Case Studies
Urban walks
'Towards a Chinatown'
Szabó, Linda
We have been organizing thematic urban walking tours for both local and foreign student and non-student groups for years. One of those has aimed to show the impact of Chinese entrepreneurs’ activities on the renewal of brownfield sites in the eighth and tenth districts of Budapest. During the tour we tend to discuss questions on how a ‘Chinatown’ may be defined, which actors, when, why, and how can contribute to develop a ‘Chinatown’ in the city. This way we also ponder on the historical and global contexts of the interplay between migration and urban transformations.
In case you are interested to participate in this thematic tour, you can sign up here.