Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies· 2026Q1
Gendered place-making in superdiverse neighbourhoods and the role of civil society: relationships, resources and resistance
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Civil society organizations can support women with migration backgrounds in 'making place' within superdiverse neighborhoods by fostering relationships, providing resources, and enabling resistance against stigmatization.
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Key points
- Women with migration backgrounds experience gendered discrimination that complicates their 'place-making' in superdiverse neighborhoods.
- Place-making is an iterative process involving emotional and experiential dimensions, not just physical built environments.
- Civil society organizations play a crucial role in supporting women's place-making efforts.
- A new conceptual framework identifies relationships, resources, and resistance as key dimensions for gendered place-making.
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Abstract
Place-making is a contested concept that has traditionally focused on physical dimensions of the built environment created by urban planners. However, recent work has emphasised place-making as an iterative process involving a much wider set of actors and which has emotional and experiential dimensions. This paper explores the challenges of place-making for women with a migration background living in superdiverse areas in Birmingham (England), Bochum (Germany) and Gothenburg (Sweden). It highlights the importance of gendered discrimination and associated challenges for such individuals to connect with neighbourhood diversity and ‘make place’. This paper also critically evaluates the role of civil society in facilitating place-making processes and develops a conceptual framework of gendered place-making identifying three important dimensions: relationships; resources and resistance to place stigmatisation. In so doing, this paper provides a gender-sensitive, superdiversity-informed framework that explains how civil society supports place-making through relationships, resources and resistance in highly diverse urban neighbourhoods.
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