Eva Swyngedouw
Biographic Data
| ID | 3734293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eva Swyngedouw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eva |
| FAMILY NAME | Swyngedouw |
| SIGNATURE | SWYNGEDOUW E |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1104-1604 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Forced nomadism and housing evictions in Brussels
Many European cities face a severe housing affordability crisis, marked by rising rents, housing shortages and homelessness. Brussels exemplifies these trends: many low-income households struggle to pay rent, resulting in increasing expulsions. In this context, eviction constitutes not an isolated rupture but a recurring feature of precarious urban life. Drawing on mixed-method research on housing evictions in Brussels, this paper brings urban an…
“Don’t they jump on the seats?” The underrepresentation of migrant and minority artists in the cultural labour market of Brussels
While migration has made cities more super-diverse than ever, artists with migrant backgrounds are underrepresented in the creative and cultural industries. Although existing literature pays attention to minorities’ unequal labour market access, the question of how the careers and working conditions of artists with a migrant background play out in local cultural labour markets remains underexplored. Based on the case of the performing arts sector…
Les expulsions de logement à Bruxelles
Combien de ménages sont-ils expulsés de leur logement chaque année à Bruxelles ? Que sait-on du profil des locataires expulsés et des bailleurs ayant requis une expulsion ? Certaines parties de la ville sont-elles plus touchées que d’autres ? Alors qu’elles constituent un cas extrême de privation du droit au logement, les expulsions de logement à Bruxelles y sont encore très peu documentées. Cet article vise à pallier ce manque de connaissances e…
Uithuiszettingen in Brussel
Combien de ménages sont-ils expulsés de leur logement chaque année à Bruxelles ? Que sait-on du profil des locataires expulsés et des bailleurs ayant requis une expulsion ? Certaines parties de la ville sont-elles plus touchées que d’autres ? Alors qu’elles constituent un cas extrême de privation du droit au logement, les expulsions de logement à Bruxelles y sont encore très peu documentées. Cet article vise à pallier ce manque de connaissances e…
Housing evictions in Brussels
Combien de ménages sont-ils expulsés de leur logement chaque année à Bruxelles ? Que sait-on du profil des locataires expulsés et des bailleurs ayant requis une expulsion ? Certaines parties de la ville sont-elles plus touchées que d’autres ? Alors qu’elles constituent un cas extrême de privation du droit au logement, les expulsions de logement à Bruxelles y sont encore très peu documentées. Cet article vise à pallier ce manque de connaissances e…
Reeling in Newcomers
The management of ethnic diversity and its various forms of institutional articulation and implementation are increasingly taking place at the urban level. At the same time, urban scholars consider cities to be battlegrounds where competing groups contest the meaning and articulation of citizenship. In this article, I build on these insights to argue that competition over newcomer reception between different, linguistically divided political coal…
The Segregation of Social Interactions in the Red Line L-Train in Chicago
This study documents how residential segregation is visible in social interactions in the (semi) public space of the red line L-train in Chicago. While public spaces are often celebrated as spaces of cosmopolitanism, people tend to interact mainly with people who look similar and appear to be living in the same area in Chicago. People of different race and class, represented by the station where they board the train, do not encounter each other m…
The Congolese diaspora in Brussels and hybrid identity formation
In most of the literature on transnational communities and urban identity formation, emphasis is placed on two main processes of immigration that have shaped transnational presence. On the one hand, considerable attention has been paid to the emergence of large communities of migrating people who were positively attracted, if not encouraged to move, to fuel local labor markets (as in the case of guest workers in North-Western Europe). On the othe…
The Segregation of Social Interactions in the Red Line L-Train in Chicago
This study documents how residential segregation is visible in social interactions in the (semi) public space of the red line L-train in Chicago. While public spaces are often celebrated as spaces of cosmopolitanism, people tend to interact mainly with people who look similar and appear to be living in the same area in Chicago. People of different race and class, represented by the station where they board the train, do not encounter each other m…
Reeling in Newcomers
The management of ethnic diversity and its various forms of institutional articulation and implementation are increasingly taking place at the urban level. At the same time, urban scholars consider cities to be battlegrounds where competing groups contest the meaning and articulation of citizenship. In this article, I build on these insights to argue that competition over newcomer reception between different, linguistically divided political coal…
The Congolese diaspora in Brussels and hybrid identity formation
In most of the literature on transnational communities and urban identity formation, emphasis is placed on two main processes of immigration that have shaped transnational presence. On the one hand, considerable attention has been paid to the emergence of large communities of migrating people who were positively attracted, if not encouraged to move, to fuel local labor markets (as in the case of guest workers in North-Western Europe). On the othe…
The Segregation of Social Interactions in the Red Line L-Train in Chicago
This study documents how residential segregation is visible in social interactions in the (semi) public space of the red line L-train in Chicago. While public spaces are often celebrated as spaces of cosmopolitanism, people tend to interact mainly with people who look similar and appear to be living in the same area in Chicago. People of different race and class, represented by the station where they board the train, do not encounter each other m…
Reeling in Newcomers
The management of ethnic diversity and its various forms of institutional articulation and implementation are increasingly taking place at the urban level. At the same time, urban scholars consider cities to be battlegrounds where competing groups contest the meaning and articulation of citizenship. In this article, I build on these insights to argue that competition over newcomer reception between different, linguistically divided political coal…
“Don’t they jump on the seats?” The underrepresentation of migrant and minority artists in the cultural labour market of Brussels
While migration has made cities more super-diverse than ever, artists with migrant backgrounds are underrepresented in the creative and cultural industries. Although existing literature pays attention to minorities’ unequal labour market access, the question of how the careers and working conditions of artists with a migrant background play out in local cultural labour markets remains underexplored. Based on the case of the performing arts sector…
Les expulsions de logement à Bruxelles
Combien de ménages sont-ils expulsés de leur logement chaque année à Bruxelles ? Que sait-on du profil des locataires expulsés et des bailleurs ayant requis une expulsion ? Certaines parties de la ville sont-elles plus touchées que d’autres ? Alors qu’elles constituent un cas extrême de privation du droit au logement, les expulsions de logement à Bruxelles y sont encore très peu documentées. Cet article vise à pallier ce manque de connaissances e…
Uithuiszettingen in Brussel
Combien de ménages sont-ils expulsés de leur logement chaque année à Bruxelles ? Que sait-on du profil des locataires expulsés et des bailleurs ayant requis une expulsion ? Certaines parties de la ville sont-elles plus touchées que d’autres ? Alors qu’elles constituent un cas extrême de privation du droit au logement, les expulsions de logement à Bruxelles y sont encore très peu documentées. Cet article vise à pallier ce manque de connaissances e…
Housing evictions in Brussels
Combien de ménages sont-ils expulsés de leur logement chaque année à Bruxelles ? Que sait-on du profil des locataires expulsés et des bailleurs ayant requis une expulsion ? Certaines parties de la ville sont-elles plus touchées que d’autres ? Alors qu’elles constituent un cas extrême de privation du droit au logement, les expulsions de logement à Bruxelles y sont encore très peu documentées. Cet article vise à pallier ce manque de connaissances e…
Forced nomadism and housing evictions in Brussels
Many European cities face a severe housing affordability crisis, marked by rising rents, housing shortages and homelessness. Brussels exemplifies these trends: many low-income households struggle to pay rent, resulting in increasing expulsions. In this context, eviction constitutes not an isolated rupture but a recurring feature of precarious urban life. Drawing on mixed-method research on housing evictions in Brussels, this paper brings urban an…
Political science (7 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (3 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Migration, Identity, and Health (3 works) · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues (2 works) · Citizenship (2 works)