Navigating Urban Life in Lisbon: A Study of Migrants’ Mobilities and Use of Space

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Autor(a) principal: Buhr, Franz
Data de Publicação: 2017
Outros Autores: McGarrigle, Jennifer
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v5i4.1105
Resumo: Besides a more general concern over transport infrastructure, its quality and availability, mobility is also a pre-condition for city dwellers to access urban resources, facilities, employment, local services and leisure. Moreover, mobility allows urban inhabitants to uncover a city’s potentialities and to fully participate in urban life. Migrants, nevertheless, face the issue of learning to do mobility in a new environment together with the urgency for settlement, finding work, making personal connections and attending to the mundane needs of everyday life that require one to move about. This article looks at migrants’ urban mobilities in Lisbon, Portugal, from two perspectives. First, we look at migrants’ urban knowledge and skills and at how they employ their abilities to use Lisbon’s urban resources. Second, we address some of the ways place-specific urban resources of a religious nature sustain and are sustained by various (im)mobility practices. More specifically, we look to a suburban mosque run by Guinean migrants and to a Sikh Gurdwara. This mobile/place-based contrast points to the variegated (and often overlooked) forms of mobility (or lack of) that are put to practice by migrants and to how they shape the everyday of migration journeys and their capacities to enjoy city-living.
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title Navigating Urban Life in Lisbon: A Study of Migrants’ Mobilities and Use of Space
spellingShingle Navigating Urban Life in Lisbon: A Study of Migrants’ Mobilities and Use of Space
Buhr, Franz
integration; migrant; mobility; navigation; religion; transport; urban; wellbeing
title_short Navigating Urban Life in Lisbon: A Study of Migrants’ Mobilities and Use of Space
title_full Navigating Urban Life in Lisbon: A Study of Migrants’ Mobilities and Use of Space
title_fullStr Navigating Urban Life in Lisbon: A Study of Migrants’ Mobilities and Use of Space
title_full_unstemmed Navigating Urban Life in Lisbon: A Study of Migrants’ Mobilities and Use of Space
title_sort Navigating Urban Life in Lisbon: A Study of Migrants’ Mobilities and Use of Space
author Buhr, Franz
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McGarrigle, Jennifer
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McGarrigle, Jennifer
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv integration; migrant; mobility; navigation; religion; transport; urban; wellbeing
topic integration; migrant; mobility; navigation; religion; transport; urban; wellbeing
description Besides a more general concern over transport infrastructure, its quality and availability, mobility is also a pre-condition for city dwellers to access urban resources, facilities, employment, local services and leisure. Moreover, mobility allows urban inhabitants to uncover a city’s potentialities and to fully participate in urban life. Migrants, nevertheless, face the issue of learning to do mobility in a new environment together with the urgency for settlement, finding work, making personal connections and attending to the mundane needs of everyday life that require one to move about. This article looks at migrants’ urban mobilities in Lisbon, Portugal, from two perspectives. First, we look at migrants’ urban knowledge and skills and at how they employ their abilities to use Lisbon’s urban resources. Second, we address some of the ways place-specific urban resources of a religious nature sustain and are sustained by various (im)mobility practices. More specifically, we look to a suburban mosque run by Guinean migrants and to a Sikh Gurdwara. This mobile/place-based contrast points to the variegated (and often overlooked) forms of mobility (or lack of) that are put to practice by migrants and to how they shape the everyday of migration journeys and their capacities to enjoy city-living.
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