Dancing with bulldozers: Migrant life on Beijing's periphery
Dancing with bulldozers: Migrant life on Beijing's periphery
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与推土机共舞：北京周边的移民生活
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10.1080/13604813.2014.868167
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2014
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Knowles C
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Knowles C
本文详细介绍了与北京的两次研究接触。它探讨了移民在城市中与城市的联系，并将其作为思考城市的一种方式。第一次遇到的是在城市西北边缘的肖家河的贫困内部，有时被称为“流动”的移民。第二个是英国移民在机场附近城市东北边缘的封闭社区“首都撤退”。这两个地方都是不同类型的城市到达门户。这些门户网站共同制作的（不相称的）移民流并排放置，暴露了移民的常规和非常规流动以及指导他们在城市中航行的城市知识。在这种并列情况下，很明显，城市导航技能更适合于分析移民，而不是移民学者通常采用的基于正规教育和职业技能的定义。这些门户网站的导航技能的比较揭示了内部移民的想象力，灵活性和弹性以及英国移民的恐惧，困难和无能。最重要的是，移民的导航技能通过他们与城市的联系暴露了城市，通过他们在移民结构中的构成提供了思考城市的新方式：移民不仅仅生活在城市，而且创造了城市。从这两次亲密接触中，我认为亲密和距离，保护和暴露，城市存在的重叠条件，提供了一种概念化城市作为移民结构的方式。这两个城市门户的对比现实正在形成，并排生活，并不是一个平行的生活问题。在通过生活创造城市的过程中，国内和外国移民各自为对方创造了必须重新导航城市的环境，从而使城市成为一个不同的、交叉的旅程的生活纽带，其中通过土地投机积累的逻辑为两个群体提供了重要的牵引力。本文描述了全球资本主义如何通过移民生活的透镜在（后）社会主义中国的首都城市生活，展示了空间动态，传记和比较方法对当代城市主义的分析优势。
This paper details two research encounters with Beijing. It explores the connections migrants make with the city in navigating it, and offers this as a way of thinking about cities. The first encounter is with poor internal, sometimes called ‘floating’, migrants in Xiao Jiahe on the NW edge of the city. The second is with UK migrants in the gated community ‘Capital Retreat’ on the NE edge of the city near the airport. Both locations are city arrival-portals of different kinds. The (incommensurate) streams of migration through which these portals are coproduced are placed side by side, exposing migrants' routine and irregular mobility and the urban knowledge guiding their navigation of the city. In this juxtaposition it becomes clear that urban navigational skills are more appropriate to the analysis of migration than definitions based on formal educational and occupational skills commonly deployed by migration scholars. Comparison of navigational skills in these portals reveals the imagination, flexibility and resilience of internal migrants and the fears, difficulties and incapacities of UK migrants. Most importantly, migrants' navigational skills expose the city through the connections they make with it, providing new ways of thinking about cities through their constitution in migrant fabrics: migrants don't just live in cities, but make them. From these two close encounters, I suggest that intimacy and distance, protection and exposure, overlapping conditions of urban existence, provide a way of conceptualizing the city-as-migrant-fabric. The contrasting realities of these two city portals in the making, lived side by side, are not quite a matter of parallel lives. In making the city by living it, internal and foreign migrants each produce for the other the circumstances in which the city must be re-navigated, thus producing it as a living nexus of disparate, intersecting journeys, in which the logics of accumulation through land speculation provide significant forms of traction for both groups. This paper describes how global capitalism makes urban life in the capital city of (post) socialist China through the lens of migrant life, demonstrating the analytic advantages of spatially dynamic, biographical and comparative approaches to contemporary urbanism.
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