Arrival City Hamburg

Multi-dimensional opportunity structures for migrant integration in German cities

Master thesis (2019)

Authors

L. Laub Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

W.A.M. Zonneveld Spatial Planning and Strategy - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
B. Hausleitner Urban Design - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
Rodrigo Viseu Cardoso Spatial Planning and Strategy - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2019 L. Laub
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Published Date

04-11-2019

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

Integration as one of the major paths to social cohesion is a task of urban development and restructuring (Glick Schiller & Çaǧlar, 2009). A growing number of scholars refer to the importance of urban opportunities that facilitate integration processes via the empowerment, interaction and participation of social groups (Glick Schiller & Çaǧlar, 2009; R. Kloosterman, 2010; Kurtenbach, 2013; Räuchle & Schmiz, 2018). Arrival cities, viewed as the key intersection between migration, integration and urban development, are the subject of this study.
Borrowing theories, methods and interventions from different disciplines, this project designs opportunity structures for migrant integration within the intersection of space and the legal-political, socio-economic and cultural-religious dimensions of integration. Following an introduction on arrival cities, this project examines how opportunity structures facilitate the integration process in Hamburg and how a strategic design approach can generate new opportunity structures. By viewing migrants as place-makers, this project is driven by a positive view on arrival neighbourhoods and migrants’ self-organization.