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Bork-Hueffer, Tabea, Etzold, Benjamin ORCID: 0000-0002-1109-7640, Gransow, Bettina, Tomba, Luigi, Sterly, Harald ORCID: 0000-0001-8819-1638, Suda, Kimiko, Kraas, Frauke ORCID: 0000-0002-3498-6758 and Flock, Ryanne (2016). Agency and the Making of Transient Urban Spaces: Examples of Migrants in the City in the Pearl River Delta, China, and Dhaka, Bangladesh. Popul. Space Place., 22 (2). S. 128 - 146. HOBOKEN: WILEY. ISSN 1544-8452

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Abstract

Internal migration within Asian countries and international migration to, within, and out of Asia have been on the rise throughout the past decades. As types and pathways of migration, migrants' sociocultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, and their transnational and translocal trajectories become increasingly diverse, a majority of them move to cities. Diverging power geometries and relations are constantly negotiated and (re)produced in the socio-spatial dialectic of the city. Through their individual and collective agency, assets, and knowledge, mobile subjects have become important agents in the (re)production of spaces in cities, whereas the socio-political and physical conditions of spaces frame their livelihoods, opportunities, and agency. Research on migrants' agency has intensified recently, but the specific modes through which agency operates in the socio-spatial dialectic still need to be conceptualised. We develop a framework that outlines different modes through which agents and space interact. The framework is exemplified through papers on case studies from Dhaka and the Pearl River Delta (PRD) that are part of this special issue. Dhaka and the PRD have been characterised by accelerated growth throughout the past decades, particularly due to the influx of rural-to-urban migrants, but they also receive an increasing number of international migrants. We conclude that through their diverse, multi-sited, and translocal relations and activities stretching beyond the receiving cities in a context of constant transformation, migrants' practices contribute to the emergence of a specific type of urban spaces that we delineate as transient urban spaces. Copyright (c) 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Bork-Hueffer, Tabea UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Etzold, Benjamin UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-1109-7640 UNSPECIFIED Gransow, Bettina UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Tomba, Luigi UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Sterly, Harald UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-8819-1638 UNSPECIFIED Suda, Kimiko UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Kraas, Frauke UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-3498-6758 UNSPECIFIED Flock, Ryanne UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-284041
DOI:	10.1002/psp.1890
Journal or Publication Title:	Popul. Space Place.
Volume:	22
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 128 - 146
Date:	2016
Publisher:	WILEY
Place of Publication:	HOBOKEN
ISSN:	1544-8452
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Geosciences > Geographisches Institut
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; FOOD SECURITY; PUBLIC SPACE; CITIES; GUANGZHOU Multiple languages Demography; Geography Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/28404