Urban Conflicts and Migrants and Poor City Dwellers Empowerment: Roma coming from ex-Yougoslavia in Tours, Informal Areas Inhabitants in Dakar and Tunis
Journal title PARTECIPAZIONE E CONFLITTO
Author/s Olivier Legros
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2012/3 Language Italian
Pages 23 P. 47-69 File size 370 KB
DOI 10.3280/PACO2012-003003
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What is the contribution of urban conflicts to the migrants and poor city dwellers empowerment? The paper is based on the observation of three contentious situations - fighting against the eviction of a little slum settled by Roma migrants from the Ex-Yougoslavia in Tours (France), complaining for land facilities and other collective goods in the informal areas of Dakar and Tunis. Urban conflicts mainly contribute to social regulation. Nevertheless, by incitating the public authorities to provide facilities (Dakar, Tunis) or temporary hosting systems (Tours) these mobilizations produced positive effects on capacity building and political participation of migrants and poor city dwellers. These resources, which have a strong spatial dimension, can be converted to symbolical capital. In addition to that, the land facilities can reinforce the economical capital of the deprived populations (or, better, of a part of them).
Keywords: Roma Migrants, Informal Areas Dwellers, Urban Contention, Empowerment, France, Dakar, Tunis
Olivier Legros, Conflitti urbani ed empowerment dei migranti e dei poveri urbani: i rom jugoslavi di Tours e gli abitanti dei quartieri non regolamentari di Dakar e Tunisi in "PARTECIPAZIONE E CONFLITTO" 3/2012, pp 47-69, DOI: 10.3280/PACO2012-003003