Governing Displacement in Times of Uncertainty - The role of local actors in placemaking for Ukrainian Displaced Persons in Malmö and Rotterdam
(2023) SGEM08 20231Department of Human Geography
- Abstract
- The decision by the European Union to enforce the Temporary Protection Directive to respond to the inflow of Ukrainian displaced people in member states has resulted in a peculiar governance system that sets Ukrainian displaced people as an exceptional category of vulnerable migrants. Their stay is temporary, but as it is impossible to predict a date for Ukraine to be deemed a safe country again, it is likely that these people will stay in host countries for a long time. Ukrainian displaced people work, study, and participate in the host country’s society. This thesis examines and compares how the local governments and civil society organizations of Malmö and Rotterdam, two European cities whose history has been shaped by migration flows... (More)
- The decision by the European Union to enforce the Temporary Protection Directive to respond to the inflow of Ukrainian displaced people in member states has resulted in a peculiar governance system that sets Ukrainian displaced people as an exceptional category of vulnerable migrants. Their stay is temporary, but as it is impossible to predict a date for Ukraine to be deemed a safe country again, it is likely that these people will stay in host countries for a long time. Ukrainian displaced people work, study, and participate in the host country’s society. This thesis examines and compares how the local governments and civil society organizations of Malmö and Rotterdam, two European cities whose history has been shaped by migration flows and that host a very diverse population, provide incentives or constraints for Ukrainian displaced to make place in their new surroundings. Theoretically speaking, this thesis adopts the idea of placemaking, an experiential attachment of emotions and symbols to one’s socio-spatial surroundings rooted in phenomenology, enriching it with insights provided by a critical phenomenology in which political actors are conceived as impacting the subject’s experiences with their surroundings. To understand how this interplay between the political and the personal spaces plays out in reality, this thesis relies on an empirical investigation in which municipal officers, CSOs, and members of the Ukrainian community participated in semi-structured interview to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the governance systems of Malmö and Rotterdam. To understand what kinds of incentives and constraints most severely impact placemaking, housing, access to information, and social participation have been recognized as key components of placemaking that are deeply influenced by the actions of local governments and civil society organizations. (Less)
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- author
- Frati, Jacopo LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SGEM08 20231
- year
- 2023
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Placemaking, Humanist Geography, Lefebvre's Spatial Triad, Ukrainian Displaced People, Urban Governance
- language
- English
- id
- 9117484
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- 2023-05-30 13:50:17
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abstract = {{The decision by the European Union to enforce the Temporary Protection Directive to respond to the inflow of Ukrainian displaced people in member states has resulted in a peculiar governance system that sets Ukrainian displaced people as an exceptional category of vulnerable migrants. Their stay is temporary, but as it is impossible to predict a date for Ukraine to be deemed a safe country again, it is likely that these people will stay in host countries for a long time. Ukrainian displaced people work, study, and participate in the host country’s society. This thesis examines and compares how the local governments and civil society organizations of Malmö and Rotterdam, two European cities whose history has been shaped by migration flows and that host a very diverse population, provide incentives or constraints for Ukrainian displaced to make place in their new surroundings. Theoretically speaking, this thesis adopts the idea of placemaking, an experiential attachment of emotions and symbols to one’s socio-spatial surroundings rooted in phenomenology, enriching it with insights provided by a critical phenomenology in which political actors are conceived as impacting the subject’s experiences with their surroundings. To understand how this interplay between the political and the personal spaces plays out in reality, this thesis relies on an empirical investigation in which municipal officers, CSOs, and members of the Ukrainian community participated in semi-structured interview to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the governance systems of Malmö and Rotterdam. To understand what kinds of incentives and constraints most severely impact placemaking, housing, access to information, and social participation have been recognized as key components of placemaking that are deeply influenced by the actions of local governments and civil society organizations.}},
author = {{Frati, Jacopo}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Governing Displacement in Times of Uncertainty - The role of local actors in placemaking for Ukrainian Displaced Persons in Malmö and Rotterdam}},
year = {{2023}},
}