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Where Goes the Neighbourhood?, Refugee Resettlement and Urban Development in a Disempowered City
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9782940600441
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Graduate Institute Publications
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eCahiers de l’Institut
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anglais
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Where Goes the Neighbourhood?

Refugee Resettlement and Urban Development in a Disempowered City

Graduate Institute Publications

eCahiers de l’Institut

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This paper explores the intersection of urban restructuring and refugee
resettlement. Centring around a case study of Buffalo, New York (NY), USA, it
adds to the small but growing number of studies on resettlement in post-
industrial contexts. Buffalo is experiencing economic and population growth,
termed by some as the city’s renaissance (even the refugee renaissance), while
others regard it as gentrification and exclusionary development. At the same
time, the city has become one of the largest resettlement sites in the
country. In politicians’ statements and the media, refugees are credited with
being one of the key drivers for this development in the city. Through
interviews with various stakeholders, I explore how these phenomena are
understood. I argue that this convening of factors creates a particular
conception of the figure of the resettled refugee. In Buffalo, refugees emerge
as a particularly valued form of other, capable of driving development in a
way that fits ideally within the narrative of ‘rust to reinvention’. As such,
they become outside economic development agents, divorced from the challenges
faced by struggling residents for decades. Resettlement actors navigate this
conversation, recognising the challenges faced by refugees and other
residents, while at the same time carrying forward prevailing narratives and
frames. We extend our heartfelt thanks to the Vahabzadeh Foundation for
financially supporting the publication of best works by young researchers of
the Graduate Institute, giving a priority to those who have been awarded
academic prizes for their master’s dissertations.
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