Franz Buhr
Biographic Data
| ID | 1000312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Franz Buhr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Franz |
| FAMILY NAME | Buhr |
| SIGNATURE | BUHR F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lisbon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9466-9850 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Conclusion
This volume establishes privilege as a rigorous analytical lens in migration studies, shifting the scholarly focus from static elite categories to a relational spectrum of advantages or 'gradients'. The text conceptualises privilege as a context-dependent resource actively ‘done’ and negotiated through capital conversion, organisational practices, and spatial-temporal arbitrage. The book introduces a comprehensive typology of privilege—encompassi…
Privilege in Migration
This open access book explores the transnational mobility of privileged migrants. The notion of ‘privilege’ has the merit of bringing to light various less-studied forms of migration, such as retirement, lifestyle, investment, amenity, elite, highly skilled and international residential mobilities. This book investigates the concept of privilege and examines its analytical reach in capturing and describing migration processes of middle- and high-…
Privileged Mobilities and Migrants’ Businesses in Lisbon
New forms of migrant entrepreneurship have recently emerged in Lisbon. The consolidation of the city within European and global circuits of tourism has visibly shifted the landscape of immigrants’ commercial and business activities, taking it far beyond the stereotypical image of the migrant-owned souvenir shop or the ‘exotic food’ restaurant. Migrants are increasingly part of higher and more sophisticated markets, which include specialty coffee …
Privilege in Migration
This chapter presents privilege as a powerful analytical lens for the study of migration. Arguing that privilege only exists in relation to inequality, it makes the case for treating relatively affluent, mobile individuals–‘expatriates’, digital nomads, lifestyle migrants, retirees–as migrants, in order to denaturalise the unequal treatment afforded to them compared with those conventionally labelled ‘migrants’. It reviews scholarship on privileg…
Estilos de vida móveis e suas infraestruturas
O crescimento exponencial do turismo em Lisboa, Portugal, transformou a cidade num destino atraente também para outras populações mais ou menos móveis. Nômades digitais, "expatriados", estudantes internacionais e uma forte mobilidade intraeuropeia fazem-se notar na paisagem urbana de Lisboa, sobretudo em espaços que mesclam práticas de consumo e de trabalho, como coffee shops, espaços de coworking e de coliving. Este artigo, organizado em forma d…
Channelling mobilities
Migration infrastructures have usually been identified with stable socio-material arrangements controlling migration (e.g. airports and detention camps), stressing highly stratified power geometries and hierarchies. Recent debates about arrival infrastructures, however, have highlighted the informal, ephemeral and improvisational character of ‘bottom-up’ infrastructures. Departing from a widened understanding of infrastructure, this paper looks a…
Migrants’ Mental Maps
A common consequence of sticking to a research topic for a fair amount of time is that it starts colonising your everyday life to a point where you may find yourself asking questions to every new acquaintance as if they were participants in your project. Your friends may become tired of your constant interrogations, but unknown people might simply take you as someone with a peculiar sense of curiosity. I believe this is what recently happened to …
A user's guide to Lisbon
This paper engages with the ‘mobility turn’ scholarship in order to provide tools for the study of migrants’ integration to urban space. The analysis of urban mobilities draws attention to the practical know-how that underlies mobility practices. I argue that migrants’ urban apprenticeship – that is, the ways migrants learn (to use) city spaces – shape their access to urban resources and their participation in urban life. Based on fieldwork condu…
Using the city
This paper explores the idea of migrant spatial integration through an approach focused on urban praxis. Joining other contributions concerned with the continuing significance of place and locality for the study of migrant settlement, this paper examines migrants’ urban apprenticeship and how it shapes their usage of city space. Departing from the idea that to ‘integrate’ urban space involves being able to navigate it and being aware of its resou…
Navigating Urban Life in Lisbon
Besides a more general concern over transport infrastructure, its quality and availability, mobility is also a pre-condition for city dwellers to access urban resources, facilities, employment, local services and leisure. Moreover, mobility allows urban inhabitants to uncover a city’s potentialities and to fully participate in urban life. Migrants, nevertheless, face the issue of learning to do mobility in a new environment together with the urge…
Using the city
This paper explores the idea of migrant spatial integration through an approach focused on urban praxis. Joining other contributions concerned with the continuing significance of place and locality for the study of migrant settlement, this paper examines migrants’ urban apprenticeship and how it shapes their usage of city space. Departing from the idea that to ‘integrate’ urban space involves being able to navigate it and being aware of its resou…
Channelling mobilities
Migration infrastructures have usually been identified with stable socio-material arrangements controlling migration (e.g. airports and detention camps), stressing highly stratified power geometries and hierarchies. Recent debates about arrival infrastructures, however, have highlighted the informal, ephemeral and improvisational character of ‘bottom-up’ infrastructures. Departing from a widened understanding of infrastructure, this paper looks a…
A user's guide to Lisbon
This paper engages with the ‘mobility turn’ scholarship in order to provide tools for the study of migrants’ integration to urban space. The analysis of urban mobilities draws attention to the practical know-how that underlies mobility practices. I argue that migrants’ urban apprenticeship – that is, the ways migrants learn (to use) city spaces – shape their access to urban resources and their participation in urban life. Based on fieldwork condu…
Estilos de vida móveis e suas infraestruturas
O crescimento exponencial do turismo em Lisboa, Portugal, transformou a cidade num destino atraente também para outras populações mais ou menos móveis. Nômades digitais, "expatriados", estudantes internacionais e uma forte mobilidade intraeuropeia fazem-se notar na paisagem urbana de Lisboa, sobretudo em espaços que mesclam práticas de consumo e de trabalho, como coffee shops, espaços de coworking e de coliving. Este artigo, organizado em forma d…
Navigating Urban Life in Lisbon
Besides a more general concern over transport infrastructure, its quality and availability, mobility is also a pre-condition for city dwellers to access urban resources, facilities, employment, local services and leisure. Moreover, mobility allows urban inhabitants to uncover a city’s potentialities and to fully participate in urban life. Migrants, nevertheless, face the issue of learning to do mobility in a new environment together with the urge…
Navigating Urban Life in Lisbon
Besides a more general concern over transport infrastructure, its quality and availability, mobility is also a pre-condition for city dwellers to access urban resources, facilities, employment, local services and leisure. Moreover, mobility allows urban inhabitants to uncover a city’s potentialities and to fully participate in urban life. Migrants, nevertheless, face the issue of learning to do mobility in a new environment together with the urge…
A user's guide to Lisbon
This paper engages with the ‘mobility turn’ scholarship in order to provide tools for the study of migrants’ integration to urban space. The analysis of urban mobilities draws attention to the practical know-how that underlies mobility practices. I argue that migrants’ urban apprenticeship – that is, the ways migrants learn (to use) city spaces – shape their access to urban resources and their participation in urban life. Based on fieldwork condu…
Using the city
This paper explores the idea of migrant spatial integration through an approach focused on urban praxis. Joining other contributions concerned with the continuing significance of place and locality for the study of migrant settlement, this paper examines migrants’ urban apprenticeship and how it shapes their usage of city space. Departing from the idea that to ‘integrate’ urban space involves being able to navigate it and being aware of its resou…
Migrants’ Mental Maps
A common consequence of sticking to a research topic for a fair amount of time is that it starts colonising your everyday life to a point where you may find yourself asking questions to every new acquaintance as if they were participants in your project. Your friends may become tired of your constant interrogations, but unknown people might simply take you as someone with a peculiar sense of curiosity. I believe this is what recently happened to …
Channelling mobilities
Migration infrastructures have usually been identified with stable socio-material arrangements controlling migration (e.g. airports and detention camps), stressing highly stratified power geometries and hierarchies. Recent debates about arrival infrastructures, however, have highlighted the informal, ephemeral and improvisational character of ‘bottom-up’ infrastructures. Departing from a widened understanding of infrastructure, this paper looks a…
Estilos de vida móveis e suas infraestruturas
O crescimento exponencial do turismo em Lisboa, Portugal, transformou a cidade num destino atraente também para outras populações mais ou menos móveis. Nômades digitais, "expatriados", estudantes internacionais e uma forte mobilidade intraeuropeia fazem-se notar na paisagem urbana de Lisboa, sobretudo em espaços que mesclam práticas de consumo e de trabalho, como coffee shops, espaços de coworking e de coliving. Este artigo, organizado em forma d…
Conclusion
This volume establishes privilege as a rigorous analytical lens in migration studies, shifting the scholarly focus from static elite categories to a relational spectrum of advantages or 'gradients'. The text conceptualises privilege as a context-dependent resource actively ‘done’ and negotiated through capital conversion, organisational practices, and spatial-temporal arbitrage. The book introduces a comprehensive typology of privilege—encompassi…
Privilege in Migration
This open access book explores the transnational mobility of privileged migrants. The notion of ‘privilege’ has the merit of bringing to light various less-studied forms of migration, such as retirement, lifestyle, investment, amenity, elite, highly skilled and international residential mobilities. This book investigates the concept of privilege and examines its analytical reach in capturing and describing migration processes of middle- and high-…
Privileged Mobilities and Migrants’ Businesses in Lisbon
New forms of migrant entrepreneurship have recently emerged in Lisbon. The consolidation of the city within European and global circuits of tourism has visibly shifted the landscape of immigrants’ commercial and business activities, taking it far beyond the stereotypical image of the migrant-owned souvenir shop or the ‘exotic food’ restaurant. Migrants are increasingly part of higher and more sophisticated markets, which include specialty coffee …
Privilege in Migration
This chapter presents privilege as a powerful analytical lens for the study of migration. Arguing that privilege only exists in relation to inequality, it makes the case for treating relatively affluent, mobile individuals–‘expatriates’, digital nomads, lifestyle migrants, retirees–as migrants, in order to denaturalise the unequal treatment afforded to them compared with those conventionally labelled ‘migrants’. It reviews scholarship on privileg…
Sociology (6 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (4 works) · privilege (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)