Urban diaspora space: Rural–urban migration and the production of unequal urban spaces

Brøgger, Ditte

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.04.003

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“…The spatial practices of these young migrants are not spectacular, nor have they altered the publicscape of Hanoi in ways comparable to those of other, more assertive groups of migrants documented in the literature on Asian cities (e.g., Bork‐Hüffer et al, 2016; Brøgger, 2019; Wu, 2010; Zhan, 2018). In the same vein, the spatial practices that we have documented are not driven by conscious intentions to resist or contest the rules and norms governing the access and use of public spaces in Hanoi.…”

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“…This question is however attracting growing research attention in other Asian contexts, notably China (see, for instance, Bork‐Hüffer et al, 2016; Brøgger, 2019; Wu, 2010; Zhan, 2018). Studies conducted in these contexts show that rural migrants can—and in many cases do—play a much more active role in the production and reproduction of urban spaces in the region than was previously assumed.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Yet there is very little work on rural migrants' relationships and interactions with the social and spatial dynamics of cities and with urban space (re)production processes in particular. This question is however attracting growing research attention in other Asian contexts, notably China (see, for instance, Bork-Hüffer et al, 2016;Brøgger, 2019;Wu, 2010;Zhan, 2018). Studies conducted in these contexts show that rural migrants can-and in many cases do-play a much more active role in the production and reproduction of urban spaces in the region than was previously assumed.…”

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Subaltern struggles to access public spaces: Young rural migrants in Hanoi, Vietnam

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2022

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This paper explores the relationships between youth who are rural labor migrants and public spaces in Hanoi, Vietnam. A host of constraints limit the access of these young subalterns to the city's public spaces, ranging from a shortage of such spaces in areas where they live, to limited leisure time, constrained mobility, and social stigmatisation. Yet, these young men and women still manage to use and enjoy a number of public spaces in Hanoi for socialisation and recreational purposes. In analysing the practices adopted by these youth to access and use these spaces, we bring a stronger focus on socio-spatial critiques and everyday politics to existing understandings of rural migrant experiences in Vietnamese cities. We approach the everyday socio-spatial practices of young labour migrants in Hanoi as a complex amalgamation of both their individual subjectivities, needs, and desires, and the multiple obstacles they face to engage with urban public spaces. By unpacking these tensions, our analysis uncovers the specific importance of informal sidewalk stalls and pedestrian streets for this engagement. The multiple ways by which the youth comply with or subtly resist expected norms in these spaces uncovers their creativity in developing a range of everyday politics and spatial negotiations. Despite their subaltern position, migrant youth are able to challenge the material and socio-normative constraints they face in Hanoi to gain a respite from their harsh working conditions and pursue their desires for distinctively urban experiences.

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“…In this way, we would be regressing towards a differentiated geography of the global field [5] (p. 497) that would emphasize the-differentiated-exposure to global processes or characteristics and would manifest in the place through material and discursive relationships. In recent publications, some global processes are described insistently as: the international mobility of rural people between the Global South and the Global North and between the urban areas and the rural spaces, associated with differentiated processes of gentrification and counter-urbanization [8,33,34], the global areas as a space of opportunity for progress in individual biography [33,35]; rural areas as a key spaces for food security and to control global climate change processes [7,8]. The political economy has focused on analyzing the locality as a means of researching global processes.…”

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Sustainable Geographical Changes in Rural Areas: Key Paths, Orientations and Limits

Paniagua

2021

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Rural differentiation processes have formed the backbone of rural studies. Owing to the strength of rural–urban and local–global relationships, the theoretical approaches to rural restructuring in the Anglo-Saxon world and new rurality in Latin America only have a limited capacity to explain contemporary global phenomena of rural spaces. Due to this, transverse theoretical and methodological approaches have emerged to explain social, environmental and spatial (rural) processes. Here, a new approach is proposed called the individual–global field, based on the individual–global binary category to substitute the traditional relevance of the locality–community–globality association This new approach tries to reinvigorate rural geography in a more flexible way, based on minor theory, to adapt to all the phenomena that can occur globally. In any case, various spatial planes are proposed, dominated by specific socioeconomic processes on which the rural individual would move.

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“…With the accelerating development of urbanization in the West, various urban problems have come along. Based on this, the conformity of urban problems' productivity and production relations, the theory of spatial production focuses on what has triggered the "spatialization shift" of social problems since the 1970s and at the end of the 20th century ushered in the formation and culmination of the "space fever" thought [4]. Among them, Lefebvre's theory of space production has played an irreplaceable role in leading and promoting the development of space research.…”

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The Analysis of the Spatial Production Mechanism and the Coupling Coordination Degree of the Danwei Compound Based on the Spatial Ternary Dialectics

Yang

Ren

2021

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With the gradual deepening of the development of high-quality urban transformation, the “Danwei Compound” urban space production method constitutes the basis of Chinese current urban spatial transformation. The transformation plan of the original danwei compound “stock” to promote the healthy development of urban society has become the focus of research. First, with the help of Lefebvre’s space production theory, combined with the spatial transformation characteristics of its own structural form experienced by the Chinese urban danwei compound, the space production is divided into three stages, namely, the diversity-orderly type average space of the danwei compound system period, dispersed type abstract space of the commercial enclosed community period, and the integrated differential space of a livable community undergoing regeneration and transformation. At each stage, the government, market, and residents have different influences on time-space production. Secondly, using Hefei’s typical danwei compound as the research carrier, according to the space ternary dialectics, a multi-level analysis of “representations of space-representational space-spatial practice” is carried out on the production mechanism, and the logic of different types of spaces in different periods are described. Among them, the representations of space of the change of the danwei compound are the interrelationship of multiple governance subjects in different periods, such as changes in the implementation degree of governance strategies, the degree of residents’ community governance participation, residents’ satisfaction with community governance, etc. The representational space is the residents’ community perception and interpersonal relationship at different transition stages, Interpersonal trust, and other social relations’ changes. Spatial practice is manifested in changes in the support of public service facilities, public space, per capita living area, building quality, architectural style, and illegal building area. Finally, the three-dimensional space dialectical coupling coordination degree model is used to analyze and compare the representations of space of typical settlements in the three stages and the coupling characteristics of the representational space and the practice of space. On this basis, we provide innovative ideas and put forward relevant measures and suggestions for the regeneration, transformation, and development of livable areas.

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Urban diaspora space: Rural–urban migration and the production of unequal urban spaces

Cited by 13 publications

References 52 publications

Subaltern struggles to access public spaces: Young rural migrants in Hanoi, Vietnam

Subaltern struggles to access public spaces: Young rural migrants in Hanoi, Vietnam

Sustainable Geographical Changes in Rural Areas: Key Paths, Orientations and Limits

The Analysis of the Spatial Production Mechanism and the Coupling Coordination Degree of the Danwei Compound Based on the Spatial Ternary Dialectics

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