"Nothing Is Expensive, Everything Cheap, Nothing Explosive!": Side Stories from Molenbeek, Brussels. Issue 1 (1st June 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Moderbacher, Christine
• Is Part Of: Migration and society. Volume 3:Issue 1(2020)
• Page Start: 287
• Page End: 293
• Publication Date: 2020-06-01
• Subjects: Brussels -- fieldwork -- media representation -- migration -- Molenbeek -- storytelling; Emigration and immigration -- Periodicals; 304.8
• DOI: 10.3167/arms.2020.030127
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2574-1306

Abstract

Abstract: More than a year after the Brussels district Molenbeek came to international attention as "ISIS's European capital, " an unplanned encounter during a visit at my former field site leads to a conversation about the struggles and concerns that people are facing in this much-talked-about place. The discussion on a small restaurant terrace wanders off into disappointments and adjustments during research and life and is marked by a shared feeling of uncertainty that mirrors the atmosphere of a city that has seldom been portrayed beyond ephemeral media descriptions.