Katharina Bauer’s OC M project is titled “Dignity in Place – Dignified practices and spaces for migrant communities’’. Migrants often experience fundamental challenges to their dignity, being trafficked and exploited in passage and on arrival, risking and losing their lives, being humiliated in populist political discourse as well as in everyday encounters. This project investigates undignified experiences and dignified practices of migrant communities from a philosophical perspective. It thereby adds a currently missing experiential dimension to traditional philosophical debates on dignity. It will close this research gap by generating a deeper philosophical understanding of ‘dignity in place’ in collaboration with (religious) migrant communities who seek to create ‘dignified spaces’ for themselves in two exemplary superdiverse cities in NL and DE. The project will contribute to uncovering the conditions under which built environments in urban settings can afford and support the dignity of their users. We focus on urban contexts because cities are the places with the largest religious and cultural diversity.
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Dignity in Place – Dignified practices and spaces for migrant communities
