Mobilitetskapital: hverdagsmobilitet i lyset af urban segregering

Abstract

Indenfor sociologisk forskning i segregering og udsatte boligomrader er der almindeligvis ikke fokus pa mobilitetsressourcers betydning for urban segregering. Samtidig har store dele af den mobilitets- og trafikrelaterede forskning ikke fokus pa social ulighed og eksklusion. Dette studie sammentaenker teoretiske inspirationer fra hhv. den kritiske mobilitetsforskning og den ulighedsfokuserede byforskning for at undersoge relationen mellem hverdagsmobilitet og urban segregering. Empirisk kortlaegger studiet mobilitetspraksis blandt kvinder med migrationsbaggrund og udlaegger, hvilke ressourcer der udgor deres mobilitetskapital, samt hvordan normer og ressourcer knyttet til hverdagsmobilitet bliver genstand for sociale distinktioner. Desuden peger studiet pa, hvordan mobilitetskapital bidrager til gruppens selvbillede og oplevelse af segregering i forhold til den omkringliggende by og andre befolkningsgrupper. Studiets empiri er genereret gennem et interdisciplinaert forskningsdesign med hovedvaegt pa kvalitative etnografiske feltmetoder. Studiet bidrager saledes med et empirisk fundament for begrebet mobilitetskapital og peger pa, hvordan aendret mobilitetskapital i praksis kan bidrage til at modvirke negative effekter af urban segregering. ENGELSK ABSTRACT Kristian Nagel Delica, Lise Rask og Naja Poulsen: Mobility capital: everyday mobility in light of urban segregation In sociological studies of urban segregation and deprived neighbourhoods, the effects of mobility-related competences are largely absent. And too, most mobility and traffic-related research does not focus on social inequality and exclusion. This study combines theoretical approaches from critical mobility research and from research on inequality and segregation in urban studies. It maps the conditions for everyday mobility among a group of women with immigrant background living in Copenhagen, Denmark, and highlights components of their mobility capital. The study also examines how norms and resources connected with everyday mobility become objects of social distinction. It also points to ways in which mobility capital contributes both to the self-perception of a group and to the overall experience of segregation in the city. The data were collected through an interdisciplinary research design and based primarily on qualitative field research methods. The study develops an empirical foundation for the concept of »mobility capital« and shows how mobility capital can be activated in order to oppose negative effects of urban segregation. Keywords: everyday mobility, segregation, inequality, mobility capital.