Wilhelmsburg Is Our Home

Download or read book Wilhelmsburg is our home! written by Julie Chamberlain and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a neighbourhood facing massive redevelopment, racialized residents speak about stigma, social mixing, and what the island community means to them. Based on rich interviews, photographs, and archival research, Julie Chamberlain rejects the usual silence in German urban studies around racialization and examines how constructing some groups as »not belonging« has shaped Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg's past and present. For racialized long-time residents, it is Heimat, a space of belonging in the context of exclusion. As social mix policy threatens that belonging, residents explore their hopes and their fears for the future of an urban space where gentrification looms.