Living Together Apart in Europe

NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and Deutsches Haus at NYU present “Living Together Apart in Europe”–a conversation about residential segregation, social fragmentation and belonging in Paris and Berlin–among Jean Beaman (CUNY), Christine Barwick (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), Robert Vief (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), and Max Weber Chair Talja Blokland (NYU). In their exchange, the speakers will discuss practices and imaginations of belonging and exclusion in Paris and Berlin. (Please note, Christine Barwick and Robert Vief will participate in the conversation via Zoom.)

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For the casual visitor of 'the European city,’ Paris or Berlin's walk-able diverse districts may give a sense of "throwntogetherness": of more connection across race, ethnic categories and social class than the U.S. American city of segregation. Class, not race, was long seen as the main organizing principle of neighborhood segregation. However, in the last three decades, European scholarship has drawn more attention to the distribution of people different in race and ethnicity by neighborhood. And they find that this is not a simple picture. In social terms, both cities are fragmented. Even though France and Germany have different approaches to citizenship and belonging, the localized experiences of racist exclusions of city residents show similarities. The geography of Berlin and Paris impacts ethnic second-generation populations' feeling of belonging to the communities in which they live, as well as how they understand their experiences of racism and other exclusions.

“Living Together Apart in Europe: Residential Segregation, Social Fragmentation and Belonging in Paris and Berlin,” is supported by the DAAD from funds of the German Federal Foreign Office (AA).

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