Introduction: Toward a Politics of Commonality: The Nexus of Mobility, Precarity, and (Non)citizenship

Ramírez, Catherine S.; Poblete, Juan; Falcón, Sylvanna M.; McKay, Steven C.; Schaeffer, Felicity Amaya

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“…While our Shared Belonging collaboration spoke to many of these points, we also considered the notion of belonging as constructed and political (Yuval-Davis 2011). As cities are spaces in flux that are produced and reproduced amidst unequal power relations, the questions of who is on the margins, who has a voice at the table and who has access to urban resources suggest that belonging is a struggle that affects both non-citizens and citizens, albeit in different ways (Ramírez et al 2021). Keeping this in mind, we frame our conversation in this article around 'power' in community-engaged scholarship and practice primarily in terms of the Shared Belonging project, but we do so with the broader context of Worcester in mind, a City where many of us strive for an integrated and meaningful role for immigrant and refugee communities in co-creating the city as a dynamic space.…”

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When Consensus Falters, We Co-create: Attending to Power in a Practitioner/Scholar Partnership to Amplify Newcomer Belonging

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Mortley

Ramirez³

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This article interrogates the politics of belonging in scholar–practitioner collaborations by analysing and reflecting upon a group project that advocated for a more equitable approach to newcomer belonging and integration in an urban setting in the United States. The structure of our collaboration revealed unaddressed and unspoken dynamics that collectively reinforced boundaries and hierarchies in our group, despite a level of intentionality around democratic praxis among the community-engaged scholars who initially brought participants together. The article asks: How can we work towards a notion of belonging if we haven’t worked out an equitable approach within our own group where everyone, including newcomers, feels like they belong? The article relies on a methodology of critical reflexive dialogue between the four co-authors – two scholars and two practitioners – to analyse and reflect on the ways that power imbalances are bound up in questions of belonging and representation.

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confidence: 99%