Neighborhoods of Arrival. Negotiations over Migration and Urban Space in Hamburg in the 20th Century

该研究项目考察了20世纪移民社区的历史。它分析了这样的住宅区的出现和转变，以及关于移民到达德国汉堡不同社区的谈判。通过审查城市空间的生产和改造以及社会上关于移民的谈判，该项目富有成效地将移民历史和城市历史的方法结合在一起。对社区层面的关注提供了新的视角，因为它挑战并批判性地讨论了迄今为止主导研究的专注于国家发展或特定种族群体的解释。通过观察三个选定的社区，该项目将更详细地研究以下领域：(1)定居和隔离的模式、移民的住房条件及其在社区恶化和升级过程中的作用；(2)组织到达过程并塑造到达社区公共形象的社会基础设施和制度；以及(3)这些社区对整个城市发展的作用，以及公众对社区的认知和政治规则的形式。人们认为，移民的定居和社区的发展是谈判过程的结果，在谈判过程中，除了经济结构和政治决定外，不同的社会群体发挥了关键作用。该项目将在城市、地区和社区的层面上分析这些过程，以及社区内的不同空间-从私人客厅到公共互动和交流空间。该项目首次对德国城市在更长一段时间内的历史到达社区进行微观层面的审查。因此，它采用了迄今为止在德国历史研究中几乎没有被接受的国际研究方法。关注的焦点是难民和移民流动，它们被公开视为移民形式，但该项目也考虑了内部移民和城市内部流动的形式，如果它们对社区的发展具有重要意义的话。为了指出连续性和转折点、反复出现的模式和社区形态以及当地对移民和移民的处理方式的差异，这项研究着眼于19世纪90年代至80年代之间的较长时期的社会变化。分析的重点将放在密集移民的四个阶段。基于社会史、政治史和文化史的方法，该项目使用了不同的原始材料样本，以分析邻里层面的发展。

The research project examines the history of immigration neighborhoods during the 20th century. It analyzes the emergence and transformation of such quarters as well as the negotiations over the arrival of immigrants for different neighborhoods in the German city of Hamburg. By examining the production and transformation of urban space as well as negotiations on migration in society, the project productively integrates approaches of migration history and urban history. The focus on the neighborhood level provides new perspectives, insofar as it challenges and critically discusses interpretations focusing on national developments or specific ethnic groups, which have dominated research so far.By looking at three selected neighborhoods, the project will examine the following fields in more detail: (1) patterns of settlement and segregation, the housing conditions of migrants and their role in processes of deterioration and upgrading of neighborhoods, (2) social infrastructures and institutions which structured processes of arrival and shaped the public appearance of arrival neighborhoods, and (3) the role of these neighborhoods for the development of the entire city, as well as forms of public perception and political regulations of the neighborhoods. It is assumed that the settlement of immigrants and the development of neighborhoods were results of negotiation processes in which, besides economic structures and political decisions, different social groups played a crucial role. The project will analyze these processes both on the levels of the city, the district and the neighborhood, as well as regarding different spaces inside a neighborhood – from private living rooms to spaces of public interaction and communication.The project examines the micro level of historical arrival neighborhoods for the first time for a German city over a longer period of time. It thus picks up international research approaches that have so far hardly been received in German historical studies. In the focus of interest are refugee and migratory movements, which were publicly treated as forms of immigration, but the project also takes forms of internal migration and inner-city mobility into account, if they had been significant for the development of a neighborhood. In order to point out continuities and turning points, recurring patterns and differences in the shape of the neighborhoods and in the local handling of migrants and migration, the study looks at a longer period of social change between the 1890s and 1980s. The focus of analysis will be on four phases of intensive immigration. Based on approaches of social history, political history and cultural history, the project works with a diverse sample of source material, in order to analyze the developments on the neighborhood level.