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Destination dumping ground: the convergence of ‘unwanted’ populations in disadvantaged city areas
Citation
Chesire, L and Zappia, GM, Destination dumping ground: the convergence of unwanted' populations in disadvantaged city areas, Urban Studies, 53, (10) pp. 2081-2098. ISSN 0042-0980 (2016) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2015 Urban Studies Journal Limited
DOI: doi:10.1177/0042098015587241
Abstract
Academic and lay discourses around disadvantaged urban areas often draw on the language of
‘dumping grounds’ to encapsulate the poverty, marginalisation and social problems often found
there. Yet the concept of a dumping ground remains insufficiently theorised. This paper addresses
this issue by identifying five constituent features of the dumping ground: the perception of people
as waste whose fate is to be discarded; the need to accommodate this human ‘waste’ and the
logic by which places are selected for this purpose; the mechanisms through which this spatial
sorting occurs as problem populations are moved to their ‘rightful’ place; the relations of power
which enforce or encourage this mobility; and finally, the reactions of incumbent residents in
neighbourhoods that are compelled to host unwanted social groups. In the second part of this
paper, these themes are illustrated via a case study of the Australian city of Logan where residents
complain that their city has been treated as a dumping ground in order to explain its poor
reputation.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | Australia, disadvantage, dumping ground, migrant, mobility, neighbourhood, stigma, theory |
Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Sociology |
Research Field: | Urban sociology and community studies |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in human society |
UTAS Author: | Zappia, GM (Miss Gina Zappia) |
ID Code: | 100744 |
Year Published: | 2016 (online first 2015) |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 16 |
Deposited By: | School of Social Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2015-05-27 |
Last Modified: | 2016-12-14 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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