“Migrações, Cosmopolitismos e Produção de Cidade: Uma Etnografia dos Pequenos Comerciantes no Bonfim (2021)” [Migrations, Cosmopolitanisms and the Production of the City: An Ethnography of Small Businesses and Merchants in Bonfim] by Priscilla Santos | Master’s Thesis

Abstract: “This study analyzed how European and non-European immigrant’s businesses – such as cafes, restaurants, bars and art galleries – in the Bonfim region, Porto (Portugal), fit into the local urban dynamics, already impacted by deindustrialization and the presence of artists, and how they intersect with strategic urban planning for the city. From an ethnographic and multi-pronged approach, I tried to understand how global flows may produce both cultural hybridization and ethnic-racial frontiers in the city, which could be reconciled through notions of cosmopolitanism and “community”. I found that the emplacement of migrants in the city is related to “different types of difference”, beyond nationality.”

Keywords: urban space producTon; migraTon; small business; cosmopolitanisms

 

This master’s thesis, written by Priscilla Santos under the guidance of Professor Lígia Ferro, was defended in 2021 in the Master’s Degree in Sociology at the University of Porto, and is available in Portuguese in the University of Porto’s Open Repository.

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ANO

2021

AUTORES

Priscilla Santos

EDITORES

Lígia Ferro