Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Urban Sociology

Sascha Facius

Dissertation Project

Title:

Durable Housing Inequalities -How do urban poor cope with displacement (pressures)?

Research Interests:
  • Forced migration and displacement

  • Intra-urban inequalities, gentrification and segregation

  • participatory research

Abstract:

How do the urban poor cope with housing displacement? What kinds of strategies do the urban poor develop? And what elements shape which strategies they deploy? To answer these questions, I unpack the idea of strategies for “coping” with the threat of displacement to arrive at sociological conceptualizations of these strategies – ones anchored in Bourdieu’s [1986] concept of capital as well as the application of Tilly’s [1999] theory of durable inequalities to housing. Empirically, I identify and analyze the anti-displacement strategies of the urban poor within the complex housing contexts of São Paulo and Istanbul by breaking down the housing market into sub-housing markets.

Contact:

sascha.facius[at]gmail.com