The complexity of neighbourhood relations in a multiethnic social housing project in Copenhagen

Bibliographic Data

ID19002079
AuthorsT G Jensen (0000-0001-8968-9569, Danish National Centre for Social Research, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume23
Issue1
Pages84-98
Publication date2015-03-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIdentities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1070-289X • E-ISSN: 1547-3384
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1070289x.2015.1016519
OpenAlexW2027541588
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited41

This article examines the nature of coexistence in a multiethnic social housing project in Copenhagen, focusing on neighbourhood relations between majority Danes and ethnic minorities. Despite the general assumption that ethnic majorities and minorities have no neighbourhood relations, this case study reveals multifarious ways of relationship-making. Whereas the residents tended to emphasise separation between ethnic groups, their everyday practices indicated coexistence. These contrasts reflect the residents’ affirmations and contestations of the public national discourse about immigration, social integration and urban life. The variety of neighbourhood practices illustrates a complex social reality characterised by contrasts and ambivalences that represent different orders of identification and interaction and constitute coexisting tendencies of boundary maintenance and conviviality. © 2015 Taylor & Francis

Geography · Sociology · Mathematics · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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