Commentary: 'Profitability', Curated Narratives and Spatial Governance and their Impacts on Urban Migration and the Lives of Migrants. (23rd April 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Aubrey, Dyfed
• Other Names: Bakonyi Jutta guestEditor.; Kappler Stefanie guestEditor.; Nag Eva‐Maria guestEditor.; Opfermann Lena S. guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Global policy. Volume 12(2021)Supplement 2
• Page Start: 63
• Page End: 66
• Publication Date: 2021-04-23
• Subjects: Globalization -- Periodicals; International relations -- Periodicals; World politics -- Periodicals; 327.1705
• DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.12895
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1758-5880

Abstract

Abstract: This commentary reviews 'The 'Badlands' of the 'Balkan Route': policy and spatial effects on urban refugee housing', by Gemma Bird, Jelena Obradovic‐Wochnik, Amanda Beattie and Patrycja Rozbicka; 'Walking in Jozi: Guided Tours, Insecurity and Urban Regeneration in Inner City Johannesburg' by Lena Opfermann, and 'Curating (im)mobility: Peri‐urban agency in the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum' by Stefanie Kappler, and explores common threads running through the three articles, namely 'profitability', curated narratives and spatial governance, and their impact on 'othering' migrants and entrenching inequality. Abstract : This commentary explores common threads running through the three articles, namely 'profitability', curated narratives and spatial governance, and their impact on 'othering' migrants and entrenching inequality.