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SUMMARY:Informal urban citizenship in Buenos Aires: migration\, informalit
 y and visions for a just city - Tanja Bastia\, University of Manchester
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DESCRIPTION:In a number of cities in the Global South\, cross-border migra
 nts have played a major role in shaping the urban landscape. This is defin
 itely the case in Argentina\, where Bolivian and Paraguayan migration have
  become increasingly visible over the last few decades (Grimson 2006) and 
 have been directly linked to increasing informality\, whether at work or i
 n housing.  However\, as with most studies of migration\, most research to
  date is influenced by methodological nationalism\, and fails to take into
  account the relationship between migration and space\, either in terms of
  how the particularities of locales shape migrants’ experiences\, or the
  multiple ways in which migrants contribute to the making of these places 
 (Glick Schiller and Çaglar 2009).  In this paper we report on preliminary
  findings from a pilot project carried out in informal settlements in Buen
 os Aires.  The project focuses on place-based political organising by migr
 ants and non-migrants alike in three informal neighbourhoods and includes 
 interviews with grassroots organisations and city authorities.  On the bas
 is of the varied and multiple claims made through largely informal politic
 al organising around issues of ethnic identity\, religion\, work or housin
 g\, we explore how these claims might contribute to the construction of di
 fferent visions of the city.  Given that visions of cities are the basis o
 n which cities develop\, in this paper we explore some of these visions\, 
 particularly those put forward by migrant and mixed place-based organisati
 ons in urban informal settlements. The driving questions this paper seeks 
 to address therefore include: What visions of justice do place-based organ
 isations articulate in their strategies? Whose needs and interests do plac
 e-based organisations in neighbourhoods with high levels of cross-border m
 igrants represent?  How do city authorities perceive these different organ
 isations?
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