Locally stranded, globally anchored? Dealing with diversity on the margins of the post-migrant city. A comparative study in Leipzig and Munich

该项目的出发点是在德国城市不断增加的国际移民的框架下，多重跨文化和跨国身份和社会现实的重要性日益上升。与此同时，部分城市人口日益受到边缘化和贫穷进程的威胁。一方面，该项目的主题是如何在城市的某些跨文化和边缘化的地方体验和协商日常生活，以及这与新城市现实的生产如何相关。另一方面，该项目针对媒体和政策中的城市话语如何处理后移民社会的现实问题，并展示这两个不同层面的考虑之间的差异和相互关系。在莱比锡和慕尼黑进行的实证研究旨在探索处理城市多样性和边缘性的差异化经验和策略。在不同的城市背景下探索跨文化和边缘化的小生活世界是基于民族志的方法，重点是参与性观察。另一方面，通过专家调查和媒介分析，对涉及跨文化多样性和城市不平等的公共话语的逻辑和解释模式进行了研究，特别强调了隐喻的分析。慕尼黑和莱比锡的城市话语和日常生活实践的比较旨在确定和解释在某些政治和社会经济结构的背景下处理边缘化和多样性的不同方式。与此同时，比较视角旨在将城市概念化为全球互联的过渡空间。

Starting point of the project is the rising significance of multiple transcultural and transnational identities and social realities in the frame of an increasing international migration to German cities. At the same time parts of the urban population are increasingly endangered by processes of marginalisation and poverty. Subject of the project is on the one hand the question how everyday life is experienced and negotiated in certain transcultural and marginalised places of the city and how this is related to the production of new urban realities. On the other hand the project targets the question how urban discourses in media and policy are dealing with the realities of a post-migrant society and to show the differences and mutual relations between these two different levels of consideration. The empirical studies carried out in the cities of Leipzig and Munich aim to explore differentiated experiences and strategies dealing with urban diversity and marginality. The exploration of transcultural and marginalised small life worlds in different urban contexts is based on an ethnographic approach with focus on participatory observation. On the other hand the logics and interpretative pattern related to public discourses dealing transcultural diversity and urban inequality are investigated by expert surveys and media analysis with particular emphasis on the analysis of metaphors. The comparison of urban discourses and everyday life practice in Munich and Leipzig is targeted to identify and to explain different ways to deal with marginalisation and diversity against the backdrop of certain political and socioeconomic structures. At the same time the comparative perspective is intended to conceptualise cities as globally interconnected spaces of transition.