Understanding Short and Long Mobilities Together

Place Attachment and Community Dynamics in Mouraria, Lisbon

Bibliographic Data

ID12396293
AuthorsMaria Alba (0009-0007-9375-917X, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE‐IUL), Cis‐IUL Lisboa Portugal, corresponding author), Susana Batel (0000-0002-6586-6716, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE‐IUL), Cis‐IUL Lisboa Portugal)
Year2024
Volume34
Issue6
Publication date2024-10-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Community & Applied Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1052-9284 • E-ISSN: 1099-1298
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/casp.70003
OpenAlexW4403744915
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited46

The increase in mobilities over the last decades has facilitated the circulation of people, with short‐ and long‐term mobility practices often intertwining in the same destinations. Alongside migration processes of long‐term mobility to search for better living conditions, short mobility processes, such as touristification, started to significantly shape some cities and their communities in Southern Europe. This study examines place attachments, community and cultural dynamics of ‘migrant’ and ‘local’ residents of Mouraria, a historic and multicultural neighbourhood in Lisbon, and the consequences of touristification on those. Through walking interviews with ‘local’ residents and long‐term ‘migrants’ ( n = 20), we concluded that most of the interviewed ‘migrants’ presented a traditional‐active place attachment associated both with proximity to their culture of origin and practices envisioning the well‐being of the neighbourhood's community. Additionally, we found that the essentialisation of Mouraria's community life (‘bairrismo’) was endorsed mainly by ‘local’ residents and associated with a conditional acceptance of new residents, while touristification tended to highlight structural social injustices for both ‘local’ and ‘migrant’ residents. We discuss how the community dynamics created between these different mobility processes contribute to generate multicultural and community practices in both groups of residents

Destinations · Dynamics (music · Economic geography · Geography · Local community · Mobilities · Multiculturalism · Neighbourhood (mathematics · Place attachment · Political science · Sense of community · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Gender Studies · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Place Attachment and Urban Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology

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