Manchester has been the cultural heart of the United Kingdom for decades. Facilitating a vibrant nightlife for so many different types of partygoers. Especially the LGBTQIA+ scene in Manchester’s...Show moreManchester has been the cultural heart of the United Kingdom for decades. Facilitating a vibrant nightlife for so many different types of partygoers. Especially the LGBTQIA+ scene in Manchester’s Gay Village was the driving force behind Manchester acquiring the title of the cultural heart. From the early fifties onwards, the neighborhood now known as the Gay Village has been the home of many establishments wherein community was built. The contribution to the liberation of rights for the LGBTQIA+ Britain’s by Manchester’s LGBTQIA+ community have been immense. After many years of great success, the number of gayborhood establishments in Manchester are now declining. This trend can be identified in gayborhoods in and around the Global North. Gentrification and the hybridization of physical space can be held responsible for this disappearance of gayborhoods and LGBTQIA+ safe spaces. The shift in demand for the type of safe space can be attributed to digitalization and technological advancements paired with the growing need for intersectional discourse.Show less
Bachelor thesis | Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges (LUC) (BA/BSc)
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School segregation potentially harms social cohesion and increases inequality of educational attainment. In much of the literature, school segregation is considered to be a direct reflection of...Show moreSchool segregation potentially harms social cohesion and increases inequality of educational attainment. In much of the literature, school segregation is considered to be a direct reflection of residential segregation. However, in the unique context of Dutch cities, scholars also look at the effects of school-choice mechanisms and discriminatory admission policies on school composition. This capstone project will examine how changes in residential patterns affect the composition of pupils in schools in Rotterdam, the second-largest city in the Netherlands. It will assess quantitatively the degree to which neighborhood composition predicts primary school composition, both in terms of ethnic background and parental educational attainment. Furthermore, it will measure changes in residential and school segregation in the period from 2010 until 2020. This contributes to the little knowledge we have about urban segregation trends during this timeframe in the Netherlands. Only focusing on the city Rotterdam allows for a more in-depth and local analysis of these trends. It finds that while residential composition does have a strong significant effect on school composition, the strength of this relationship has decreased over time, suggesting that parental school-choice mechanisms or discriminatory admission policies have gained importance. Furthermore, while residential segregation generally and ethnic school segregation specifically have gone down, segregation in terms of parental educational attainment has gone up. This could be a result of the increase in the average educational level in Rotterdam, but this cannot be confirmed.Show less
The residents of la colonia Juárez, Mexico City, have organized themselves into a Platform to fight against gentrification and forced displacement. They undertake various activities to stop this...Show moreThe residents of la colonia Juárez, Mexico City, have organized themselves into a Platform to fight against gentrification and forced displacement. They undertake various activities to stop this process. On the one hand they try to raise awareness, on the other hand they try to hold the perpetrators accountable. The structure of the Platform influences the effect and outcome of their activities. Even though, some residents dedicate all their spare time to the Platform, trust plays a very important role.Show less
