Master thesis : "Migrant Voices Claiming the City: How are the Right to the City and Urban Citizenship Shaped in the Super Diverse Neighbourhood of Outremeuse, Liège?"

Abstract

This paper addresses the interrelationship between urban dynamics and migration studies, highlighting the importance of cities and neighbourhoods as mediators of social tensions in contexts of superdiversity. Focusing on the Outremeuse neighbourhood in Liège, it explores the ways in which migrants inhabit public spaces and how these spaces reflect and reproduce social hierarchies. The research uses a qualitative methodology based on urban ethnography, combined with visual tools such as mental maps. Furthermore, it explores how this way of inhabiting these spaces shapes theoretical debates on the ‘right to the city’ and ‘urban citizenship’. Through this study, it underscores the need for inclusive policies that recognise and respond to the realities of migrant populations in urban settings.