Roma communities, urban development and social bordering in the inner city of Budapest
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2017
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Virág, Tünde
Keresztély, Krisztina
Scott, James W.
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The paper relates intersectionality to the construction of urban borders based on a case study of Roma neighbourhoods in Budapest. In doing this the authors focus on rationales behind appropriating and demarcating urban spaces according to political, ethno-territorial and economic agendas. We are concerned with bordering as reflected in representations of neighbourhood in Budapest’s VIII District and socio-ethnic issues that have been framed in conjunction with urban development. This includes the selective ways Roma-specific issues are made visible, or in fact masked, through ostensibly “colour-blind” policies. Furthermore, we relate these representations to concrete impacts of urban renewal with regard to challenges of multi-ethnicity but also to often exclusionary practices of border-making. Indeed, while not an officially proclaimed policy, social segregation is eagerly pursued in practice. However, this is only part of the story as we can clearly identify attempts to create a sense of Roma belonging and pride.
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Budapest , várospolitika , roma lakosság , városi tér , etnikai kisebbségek , városfejlesztés
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Ethnic and Racial Studies 40: (7) pp. 1077-1095. (2017)