Right Kinds of Mixing? Promoting Cohesion in a Copenhagen Neighbourhood

TY - JOUR

T1 - Right Kinds of Mixing?

T2 - Promoting Cohesion in a Copenhagen Neighbourhood

AU - Grünenberg, Kristina

AU - Freiesleben, Mikalea

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - This article investigates how urban policies are meant to promote cohesion of a certain kind through neighbourhood-based urban regeneration programmes. The regeneration programme in focus aims at promoting socio-cultural encounters and ethnic minority participation, through particular notions of ‘mixing’. The authors argue that the particular notion of mixing at play in this context ‘blind spots’ questions of ethnic majority participation and culturalises broader structural issues, which often transgress local and national boundaries. Through two case studies, the authors illustrate how certain challenges in what is known as ‘ghettos areas’ become ethnicised and culturalised through a focus on the ethnicity and culture of ethnic minority residents as problematic.

AB - This article investigates how urban policies are meant to promote cohesion of a certain kind through neighbourhood-based urban regeneration programmes. The regeneration programme in focus aims at promoting socio-cultural encounters and ethnic minority participation, through particular notions of ‘mixing’. The authors argue that the particular notion of mixing at play in this context ‘blind spots’ questions of ethnic majority participation and culturalises broader structural issues, which often transgress local and national boundaries. Through two case studies, the authors illustrate how certain challenges in what is known as ‘ghettos areas’ become ethnicised and culturalised through a focus on the ethnicity and culture of ethnic minority residents as problematic.

U2 - 10.1515/njmr-2016-0001

DO - 10.1515/njmr-2016-0001

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1799-649X

VL - 6

SP - 49

EP - 57

JO - Nordic Journal of Migration Research

JF - Nordic Journal of Migration Research

IS - 1(Special Issue)

ER -