Sayfo, Omar, Viktor Marsai and Veres Kristóf György, eds. Kié itt a tér? Párhuzamos társadalmak és városi zárványok Nyugat-Európában. MCC Press, 2024.

2024

Sayfo Omar, Marsai Viktor, és Veres Kristóf György, szerk. Kié itt a tér? Párhuzamos társadalmak és városi zárványok Nyugat-Európában. MCC Press, 2024.

Are there “no-go zones” in Europe? The question has been the subject of heated debates in recent years, but one thing is clear: over the past decades, something has gone wrong in the major cities of Europe.

The history of immigrant neighborhoods dates back to the 1960s when people started arriving en masse from the former colonies and under interstate labor leasing contracts. The host states provided housing for the workers in the lowest-priced neighborhoods to which family reunification and subsequent waves of immigration brought additional masses of arrivals. In the meantime, members of the majority society were gradually moving out, creating more mixed or more homogeneous urban ethnic blocks, or parallel societies. As a result, Europe now has a number of neighborhoods where the streets look different and street culture diverges from the one in majority neighborhoods. In such enclaves social conditions and public safety are worse than elsewhere, authorities follow special protocol during interventions, and some members of the majority community simply feel uncomfortable.

Written by Migration Research Institute staff, this volume offers a comparative exploration of immigrant neighborhoods in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany and Sweden to provide a new perspective on this multi-faceted problem shaping our times.

The edited volume (in Hungarian) can be ordered here