TY - JOUR
T1 - A tale of three villages
T2 - Local housing policies, well-being and encounters between residents and immigrants
AU - Ulceluse, Magdalena
AU - Bock, Bettina
AU - Haartsen, Tialda
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded by the European Union's Horizon H2020 Research and Innovation programme (H2020 Societal Challenges) under grant agreement 726950—IMAJINE (Integrative Mechanisms for Addressing Spatial Justice and Territorial Inequalities in Europe). We thank four anonymous reviewers and the editor for their thoughtful and helpful comments. Magdalena Ulceluse would like to thank Felix Bender for helpful comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Authors. Population, Space and Place published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2022/11
Y1 - 2022/11
N2 - This article examines how the location, function and quality of immigrant accommodation facilities, regulated by local housing policies, shape the perceived effects of immigration on the well-being of residents and immigrants in three villages in the Netherlands. Drawing on semistructured interviews with local government representatives, residents and Romanian and Polish immigrants, we show how the different locations of the immigrant accommodations condition social interactions between residents and immigrants and, in this process, reinforce social hierarchies and inequalities. We illustrate how, sometimes unintentionally, spatial policies prepare the stage for conflicts to arise between immigrants and residents, shaping the latter's experiences of migration irrespective of the behaviour of the former. For immigrants, the location of their accommodation sets the limits to what they can do in terms of private behaviour and social relations, exposing them to social control and evaluation.
AB - This article examines how the location, function and quality of immigrant accommodation facilities, regulated by local housing policies, shape the perceived effects of immigration on the well-being of residents and immigrants in three villages in the Netherlands. Drawing on semistructured interviews with local government representatives, residents and Romanian and Polish immigrants, we show how the different locations of the immigrant accommodations condition social interactions between residents and immigrants and, in this process, reinforce social hierarchies and inequalities. We illustrate how, sometimes unintentionally, spatial policies prepare the stage for conflicts to arise between immigrants and residents, shaping the latter's experiences of migration irrespective of the behaviour of the former. For immigrants, the location of their accommodation sets the limits to what they can do in terms of private behaviour and social relations, exposing them to social control and evaluation.
KW - encounter
KW - housing policies
KW - immigration
KW - new immigrant destinations
KW - place
KW - seasonal migration
KW - well-being
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85103395639&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/psp.2467
DO - 10.1002/psp.2467
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85103395639
SN - 1544-8444
VL - 28
JO - Population, Space and Place
JF - Population, Space and Place
IS - 8
M1 - e2467
ER -