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来源

URBAN STUDIES,Vol.54,Issue11,P.2472-2489

语言

英文

关键字

contexts; cycles; interactions; Madrid; migrants; urban squatting

作者单位

[Lopez, Miguel Angel Martinez] City Univ Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China. Lopez, MAM (reprint author), City Univ Hong Kong, Dept Publ Policy, Tat Chee Ave, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China. E-Mail: mmartine@cityu.edu.hk

摘要

Squatters and migrants use the city space in a peculiar and anomalous manner. Their contributions to the social and political production of urban space are not usually considered crucial. Furthermore, their mutual relationship is under-researched. In this paper I investigate the participation of migrants in the squatting of abandoned buildings. This may entail autonomous forms of occupation but also various kinds of interactions with native squatters. By looking historically at the city of Madrid I distinguish four major forms of interactions. I collect evidence in order to show that deprivation-based squatting is not necessarily the prevailing type. The forms of empowerment' and engagement' were increasingly developed while autonomy' and solidarity' were continuously present. These variations occurred because of specific drivers within the cycles of movements' protests and other social and political contexts which facilitated the cooperation between squatters and migrants, although language barriers, discrimination in the housing market and police harassment constrained them too. Therefore, I argue first that two key social organisations triggered the interactions in different protest cycles. Second, I show how, in spite of the over-representation of Latin American migrants, the political squatting movement in Madrid has consistently incorporated groups of migrants and their struggles in accordance with anti-fascist, anti-racist and anti-xenophobic claims and practices. The analysis also provides a nuanced understanding about the political' implications of squatting when migrants are involved.