Project description
B/ordering in Denmark’s urban planning
Some EU countries legislate and regulate borders and reinforce social boundaries. This is known as b/ordering. However, these practices undermine the idea of liberal democracy. One example is Denmark’s controversial Ghetto Package which aims to dissolve clusters of ‘non-Western’ immigrants and descendants. However, the impact of b/ordering on society has yet to be fully studied. The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) UrBorder project will examine the Ghetto Package through an interdisciplinary analysis of urban b/ordering further developing existing studies through anthropological criminology, urban studies, and migration. The project will rely on participant observation, focus groups, life-histories, and semi-structured interviews in two different housing areas, delivering an ethnographic account of its implementation and social and political consequences.
Objective
At a time when migration is increasing, many EU countries still struggle with fully accepting migrants and other minorities. In this context, increasingly, member states introduce laws and regulations that police borders and reinforce social boundaries, and as a result, undermine the idea of liberal democracy. These practices, often labelled b/ordering, constitute attempts to control and order the unknown or undesired subjects. While much literature has dealt with this, it remains understudied how b/ordering works in and through urban planning and housing. The proposed project addresses this lacuna through an interdisciplinary analysis of such a practice of urban b/ordering: the Ghetto Package in Denmark, i.e. a set of laws implemented to break up migrant parallel societies and enforce social mix.
The proposed project further develops existing studies dealing with b/ordering by linking three scientific strands of literature: anthropological criminology, urban studies and migration. Methodologically, it will rely on participant observation, focus groups, life-histories, and semi-structured interviews in two different housing areas affected by the Ghetto Package in Denmark. This way, it will complement the existing analyses on the normative and discursive elements of b/ordering with an ethnographic account of its implementation and social and political consequences. Likewise, focusing on an iconic liberal democracy like Denmark will elicit knowledge on potential societal effects regarding citizenship and belonging in the EU.
Academically, the project will benefit from the placement at the University of Copenhagen, the prominent research centre, the Centre for Global Criminology, and a Secondment at the inspiring research environment at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Sciences Research, University of Amsterdam.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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1165 KOBENHAVN
Denmark
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