Home, city and diaspora: Anglo–Indian and Chinese attachments to Calcutta

Blunt, Alison; Bonnerjee, Jayani

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“…Smith () argued that the transnational social fields of migrants link up cities more than countries. Blunt and Bonnerjee () in their study on Anglo‐Indians and Chinese Calcuttans in London and Toronto, and Lahiri () in a study on Calcutta, have also found the city to be an important scale of diasporic dwelling, belonging, and attachment, compared to domestic homemaking or the nation‐as‐home. We follow this understanding and explicitly ask about the city as home in our survey, although the identified factors are certainly influenced by both national‐level sentiments and domestic practices.…”

Section: Conceptualising Homementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some migrants living away from the place of origin feel an intense attachment and a longing to return to the ancestral home (Christou, ; Ni Laoire, ; Ralph, ; Yahirun, ). Personal memories connected to the place can also be a factor (Blunt & Bonnerjee, ; Tolia‐Kelly, ). Both roots and memories are nostalgic sources of home construction; the former mostly imagined; the latter mostly experienced.…”

Section: Conceptualising Homementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another gap we want to address is that most of the literature on home and mobility focusses on international migrants and diaspora contexts (Ralph & Staeheli, ) and thus overemphasises national identities on the one end of the scale and domestic (household) practices on the other, whereas the city‐as‐home is under‐researched (Blunt & Bonnerjee, ). Our study is therefore on the sense of being at home in a city as a crucial scale for domestic and international migrants alike (it shall be noted that most migration to Chinese cities is actually domestic).…”

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In times of global mobility, home must be understood as a multiscalar and context-dependent concept, which is socially constructed through experiences and imagination. While most research on home is based on qualitative case studies in the context of international migration, there is a lack of systematic analyses based on larger samples of how people draw on different resources in developing a sense of home and how this differs in different places. This paper studies crossborder mobile people in Hong Kong and Shenzhen to empirically compare the strength of their sense of home in both places and to analyse the factors contributing to this sense of home at the city-scale. It is found that social contacts are most influential, followed by functional aspects such as home ownership and (to a lesser degree) nostalgic factors. While the strong impact of social contacts confirms previous research, the other aspects highlight the need to consider the local context. Our data discloses city-specific patterns of home construction, differing between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, and impacts of the border and border-crossing on senses of home.A transborder sense of home is emerging, but mainly in those residents who cross the border frequently, and based more on functional than on emotional properties. The study contributes to the literature on home by focussing on the city scale rather than the residence or the nation, by proposing a quantitative and analytical methodology, and by applying this methodology in a border setting.

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Section: Conceptualising Homementioning

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Section: Conceptualising Homementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…As the city is the exemplary site of diaspora dwelling (Blunt & Bonnerjee, 2013;Keith, 2005), the urban is a key lens to explore the centrality of space, dwelling and place-making in the diasporic condition. Through diasporic strategies of place-making, urban spaces can be transformed and instilled with new layers of meanings.…”

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“…Migrants partially enact these rights but the structural context of the urban also conditions how the diaspora is formed. As put forward by a number of scholars, the city and the diaspora interact and mutually construct each other (Blunt & Bonnerjee, 2013;Knott, 2010). Therefore, the early inception of a diaspora and the spatial form it begins to take are highly determined by the conditions of the city.…”

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A diasporic right to the city: the production of a Moroccan diaspora space in Granada, Spain

Finlay

2017

Social & Cultural Geography

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In this paper, I bring together ideas of 'diaspora space' and 'the right to the city' and empirically demonstrate how the formation of diasporas is frequently dependent on migrants attaining certain rights to the city. These rights, I argue, are conditioned and attained by the interplay of urban structural context with the place-making strategies of migrants. Drawing on 8 months of ethnographic fieldwork, I demonstrate that Moroccan migrants in Granada, Spain, have achieved a partial right to a neighbourhood of the city, producing a multi-sensory, selforientalised diaspora space. First, I show that certain urban conditions in Granada provided a foothold for Moroccan migrants to begin to form a diaspora and transform urban space. Second, I demonstrate that through the mobilisation of a strategically self-orientalised cultural capital, the diaspora have partly appropriated the valuable history of Al-Andalus, a key component in the city's tourist imagery. These factors and strategies have enabled Moroccan migrants to gain a right to have a visible presence in the city, a right to produce and transform urban space and a right to spatalise diverse identities -all key rights, I argue, in the formation of a diaspora.Un droit diasporique à la ville : la production d'un espace de diaspora marocaine à Grenade en Espagne RÉSUMÉ Dans cet article, je rassemble des idées « d'espace de diaspora » et de « droit à la ville » et je démontre empiriquement comment la formation d'une diaspora est fréquemment dépendante de l'obtention de certains droits à la ville de la part des migrants. Je soutiens que ces droits sont conditionnés et atteints à travers le croisement du contexte urbain structurel avec les stratégies d'aménagement des migrants. En m'appuyant sur 8 mois de travail ethnographique sur le terrain, je démontre que les migrants marocains à Grenade en Espagne sont arrivés à un droit partiel à un quartier de la ville, produisant un espace de diaspora multi sensoriel et auto-orientalisé. D'abord, je montre que certaines conditions urbaines à Grenade ont permis une implantation aux migrants marocains pour commencer à former une diaspora et à transformer l'espace urbain. Deuxièmement, je démontre qu'à travers la mobilisation d'un capital culturel stratégiquement autoorientalisé, la diaspora s'est approprié la précieuse histoire d'AlAndalus, un élément clé de l'imaginaire touristique de la ville. Ces 2019, VOL. 20, NO. 6, 785-805 facteurs et stratégies ont permis aux migrants marocains d'obtenir un droit à la présence visible dans la ville, un droit à la production et à la transformation de l'espace urbain et un droit à spatialiser diverses identités -qui, je le soutiens, sont tous des droits cardinaux à la formation d'une diaspora.Un derecho de la diáspora a la ciudad: la producción del espacio de la diáspora marroquí en Granada, España RESUMENEste trabajo reúne ideas de 'espacio de diáspora' y 'derecho a la ciudad' y demuestra empíricamente cómo la formación de las diásporas con frecuencia depende de que los inmi...

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