Between a guest and an okupa: Migration and the making of insurgent citizenship in Buenos Aires' informal settlements

Autores
Tanja Bastia; Montero, Jerónimo
Año de publicación
2018
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In this paper, we explore initiatives for the construction of substantive citizenship by transnational migrants in Buenos Aires. In looking at migrants’ political participation across the city, we found that the spatiality of citizenship practices is important. At the city level, there are migrant organisations representing specific nationalities. However, in informal settlements, where many migrants reside, we found that migrants engage in political practices across nationality and ethnic lines by coming together with their neighbours in grassroots organisations. These different forms of organising embody critically different views of migrants in their relationship with rights. While the former promote practices linked to ethnic belonging and see migrants as ‘guests’ in a foreign country, unable to make claims to the local or national governments, the latter see them as rights-bearing individuals with power to claim their right to the city. We argue that activism at the scale of the neighbourhood proves to hold more potential for the building of substantive citizenship than actions by organisations active at the city level. This is because migrant organisations active at the city level organise on the basis of nationality, while those at the neighbourhood level bring migrants and non-migrants together on the basis of their class-based interests.
Fil: Tanja Bastia. University of Manchester; Reino Unido
Fil: Montero, Jerónimo. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Materia
Buenos Aires
Citizenship
Informal Settlements
Migration
Right To the City
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spelling Between a guest and an okupa: Migration and the making of insurgent citizenship in Buenos Aires' informal settlementsTanja BastiaMontero, JerónimoBuenos AiresCitizenshipInformal SettlementsMigrationRight To the Cityhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.7https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5In this paper, we explore initiatives for the construction of substantive citizenship by transnational migrants in Buenos Aires. In looking at migrants’ political participation across the city, we found that the spatiality of citizenship practices is important. At the city level, there are migrant organisations representing specific nationalities. However, in informal settlements, where many migrants reside, we found that migrants engage in political practices across nationality and ethnic lines by coming together with their neighbours in grassroots organisations. These different forms of organising embody critically different views of migrants in their relationship with rights. While the former promote practices linked to ethnic belonging and see migrants as ‘guests’ in a foreign country, unable to make claims to the local or national governments, the latter see them as rights-bearing individuals with power to claim their right to the city. We argue that activism at the scale of the neighbourhood proves to hold more potential for the building of substantive citizenship than actions by organisations active at the city level. This is because migrant organisations active at the city level organise on the basis of nationality, while those at the neighbourhood level bring migrants and non-migrants together on the basis of their class-based interests.Fil: Tanja Bastia. University of Manchester; Reino UnidoFil: Montero, Jerónimo. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaSAGE Publications2018-02info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/74936Tanja Bastia; Montero, Jerónimo; Between a guest and an okupa: Migration and the making of insurgent citizenship in Buenos Aires' informal settlements; SAGE Publications; Environment and Planning A; 50; 1; 2-2018; 31-501472-3409CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1177/0308518X17736312info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X17736312info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-09-03T09:51:36Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/74936instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-09-03 09:51:36.427CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Between a guest and an okupa: Migration and the making of insurgent citizenship in Buenos Aires' informal settlements
title Between a guest and an okupa: Migration and the making of insurgent citizenship in Buenos Aires' informal settlements
spellingShingle Between a guest and an okupa: Migration and the making of insurgent citizenship in Buenos Aires' informal settlements
Tanja Bastia
Buenos Aires
Citizenship
Informal Settlements
Migration
Right To the City
title_short Between a guest and an okupa: Migration and the making of insurgent citizenship in Buenos Aires' informal settlements
title_full Between a guest and an okupa: Migration and the making of insurgent citizenship in Buenos Aires' informal settlements
title_fullStr Between a guest and an okupa: Migration and the making of insurgent citizenship in Buenos Aires' informal settlements
title_full_unstemmed Between a guest and an okupa: Migration and the making of insurgent citizenship in Buenos Aires' informal settlements
title_sort Between a guest and an okupa: Migration and the making of insurgent citizenship in Buenos Aires' informal settlements
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Tanja Bastia
Montero, Jerónimo
author Tanja Bastia
author_facet Tanja Bastia
Montero, Jerónimo
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Buenos Aires
Citizenship
Informal Settlements
Migration
Right To the City
topic Buenos Aires
Citizenship
Informal Settlements
Migration
Right To the City
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv In this paper, we explore initiatives for the construction of substantive citizenship by transnational migrants in Buenos Aires. In looking at migrants’ political participation across the city, we found that the spatiality of citizenship practices is important. At the city level, there are migrant organisations representing specific nationalities. However, in informal settlements, where many migrants reside, we found that migrants engage in political practices across nationality and ethnic lines by coming together with their neighbours in grassroots organisations. These different forms of organising embody critically different views of migrants in their relationship with rights. While the former promote practices linked to ethnic belonging and see migrants as ‘guests’ in a foreign country, unable to make claims to the local or national governments, the latter see them as rights-bearing individuals with power to claim their right to the city. We argue that activism at the scale of the neighbourhood proves to hold more potential for the building of substantive citizenship than actions by organisations active at the city level. This is because migrant organisations active at the city level organise on the basis of nationality, while those at the neighbourhood level bring migrants and non-migrants together on the basis of their class-based interests.
Fil: Tanja Bastia. University of Manchester; Reino Unido
Fil: Montero, Jerónimo. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
description In this paper, we explore initiatives for the construction of substantive citizenship by transnational migrants in Buenos Aires. In looking at migrants’ political participation across the city, we found that the spatiality of citizenship practices is important. At the city level, there are migrant organisations representing specific nationalities. However, in informal settlements, where many migrants reside, we found that migrants engage in political practices across nationality and ethnic lines by coming together with their neighbours in grassroots organisations. These different forms of organising embody critically different views of migrants in their relationship with rights. While the former promote practices linked to ethnic belonging and see migrants as ‘guests’ in a foreign country, unable to make claims to the local or national governments, the latter see them as rights-bearing individuals with power to claim their right to the city. We argue that activism at the scale of the neighbourhood proves to hold more potential for the building of substantive citizenship than actions by organisations active at the city level. This is because migrant organisations active at the city level organise on the basis of nationality, while those at the neighbourhood level bring migrants and non-migrants together on the basis of their class-based interests.
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