Moderation: Gaia Giuliani (CES)


Overview

The project INSEhRE 21 presents conclusions on the socio-spatial and housing inclusion of refugees in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, while recognising current paradoxical neoliberal tendencies and the transformative responses of the organised civil society seeking better opportunities and living conditions. This occurs in the pre/post Covid-19 framework characterised by the increase of immigrants in Portugal and its capital city. Thus, questions are raised around everyday-life difficulties, such as those regarding housing and citizenship, and on how the organised civil society reacts to these problems transforming the political sphere and urban life. What alternatives does it propose, what possibilities does it create, what future does it pursue? The goal, therefore, is to understand how refugees live/survive, identify the main transformations, who/how promotes them, and according to what aim and dynamics. It also intends to interpret differences between conciliatory reformism and radical resistance to, ultimately, recognise a potential change towards building an intercultural and inclusive world, aligned with the original idea of the right to the city. In terms of methodology, critical thinking in architecture-urbanism is crossed with migration studies, and operationalised by activism and action-research. Here, the role of academics and (former) refugees in promoting diagnosis, advocacy and rapid responses is stressed

Bio notes

Sílvia Leiria Viegas concluded a PhD in Architecture at the University of Lisbon (2015), with the thesis Luanda, (un)Predictable City? Government and Urban and Housing Transformation: Paradigms of Intervention and Resistances in the New Millennium. Sílvia is now concluding the postdoctoral research project INSEhRE 21. Socio-spatial and housing inclusion of refugees in contemporary Europe: Lessons from the African diaspora in Portugal, financed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (SFRH/BPD/118022/2016 – FSE/POCH) and developed at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. Sílvia is a member of the ITM/CES-UC, the GESTUAL/FA-UL and collaborator of the Forum Refugee Portugal.

Gaia Giuliani is a permanent researcher and member of DECIDe at CES and Associate professor in Political philosophy (ASN 2017, Italy). She obtained her PhD in History of political ideas at the University of Torino (2005) and received then 3 postdoctoral fellowships, respectively from the University of Bologna (2007-2009), the University of Technology Sydney (2009-2010) funded by the Australian Government under the scheme Endeavour Research Fellowship, and the Center for Social Studies (CES) (2015-2019), funded by the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology [FCT].

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