Jörg Plöger

Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences · Faculty of Business and Social Work

In the context of ongoing digitalisation, platform economies develop particularly dynamically. This includes the gig economy, which organises specific work tasks through an app. In the gig economy new working conditions are being negotiated in real time, which poses a significant challenge for regulating institutions. This article illustrates these...

Few scholars have studied gentrification in older industrial cities across different national contexts. A review of the literature suggests that gentrification in older industrial cities will look different in systematic ways from gentrification in global, magnet cities that most research has focused on. The literature also suggests that the politi...

Employers are of critical importance in shaping flows of workers. This paper examines how larger employers in knowledge-intensive industries tackle demand for a high-skilled workforce within their specific spatial context. The empirical material stems from a qualitative study of employers in an older industrial German city. The analysis focuses on...

This paper discusses the current state of research about work-related migration and calls for a spatially sensitive analysis of the role of work-related migration for, both, employers and employees. The argument is built on empirical material from two research projects about the role of employers and highly-qualified employees in migration processe...

Within the context of the transformation of work, mobility turns into a characteristic of contemporary (work-)lives and a pre-requisite for career biographies. High-skilled migrants who are employed in academia, IT or engineering increasingly incorporate the mobility demands of their ‘mobilised professions’. This paper examines how mobile professio...

Though it is a global phenomenon, migration results in a variety of local outcomes. Depending on migrants' specific arrival contexts, countries of origin and migration motives, they are channelled into different categories. As a result, they encounter unequal access to different domains at the local level. This paper analyses how young migrants in...

The City Migration Profile for the city of Dortmund, Germany is part of the MC2CM project studying migration and integration issues in cities in the Mediterranean region and beyond. The project is implemented by a consortium led by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), in partnership with the United Cities and Local Gov...

The objective of this chapter is to provide insights into the migration of high-skilled workers drawing on empirical research in two older-industrial European cities. In particular it aims at understanding 1) how and why high-skilled migrants arrive (conditions); 2) who arrives (groups); 3) why there are variations between places (spatial context);...

This book explores economic, social and environmental transformations in Europe and the USA to inform the regeneration of 'weak market cities'.

Mit Transnationalität werden Verflechtungen adressiert, die sich im Zuge von Migrati-onsprozessen zwischen Orten herausbilden. In Abgrenzung zu Multilokalität sind diese Prozesse inhärent ländergrenzenübergreifend, also transnational. Anders als z.B. beim multilokalen Wohnen liegt der analytische Schwerpunkt nicht auf den konkreten (Wohn-)Arrangeme...

Arbeit unterliegt einem kontinuierlichen Wandel, wobei arbeitsbezogene Mobilität zunimmt und sich ausdifferenziert. Unklar ist dabei, in welcher Weise sich diese Mobilität auf die Ortsbindungen der mobilen Beschäftigten auswirkt. Der folgende Beitrag widmet sich der Gruppe der hochgebildeten Migrant/innen. Am Beispiel einer umfassenden qualitativen...

Youth is a period where a significant amount of leisure time is met with an expanding array of options of how to spend this time. While structured and often adult-controlled programs are considered developmentally beneficial, disadvantaged and minority youth tend to reside in neighborhoods with fewer high quality resources and higher risk of exposu...

Many cities in industrialized countries engage in competition for talent. While scholars have produced rich accounts of why some cities are better equipped than others in attracting skilled workers, the individual decision-making and agency of this group remains understudied. Contributing to this debate we examine how skilled professionals make the...

High-skilled migrants have become one of the most characteristic groups of a late capitalism thus highlighting the increasing value attributed to education and qualification. Building on literature discussing the relationship between mobility and place, this contribution analyses the role of housing for the formation of local ties of such mobile pr...

Cities are increasingly addressing high-skilled migrants. Our contribution examines the factors that shape how this group relates to places and why cities provide different conditions for this. We draw on empirical data from an explorative case study with highly qualified migrants in the university city of Münster. First, we look at the place ties...

Als Resilienz von Städten verstehen wir in diesem Beitrag die systemische Anpassungsfähigkeit infolge sozioökonomischer Krisen. Im Zentrum dieses Systems stehen institutionelle Rahmenbedingungen und Prozesse der Entscheidungsfindung (Governance). Eine besondere Rolle spielen hierbei lokal spezifische dominante Normen, Sichtweisen und Paradigmen, di...

The global connection of production and labour markets intensifies circular migration patterns and mobile lifestyles. Highly qualified migrants play an increasingly prominent role as illustrated by policy initiatives to recruit skilled professionals. So far there is little evidence about the relationship between mobile groups and urban development...

Verstärkt stehen Städte und Regionen miteinander in Konkurrenz. Der Logik dieses Wettbewerbs folgend, versuchen sie, sich als attraktive Standorte für Unternehmen und zunehmend auch für ausgewählte Personengruppen zu positionieren. Der Beitrag betrachtet, wie sich städtische Akteure diesen Herausforderungen stellen. Im Besonderen wird diskutiert, o...

The impact of the recent financial and economic crisis on cities and regions in Europe has been profound. This contribution examines to what extent the crisis has affected the ongoing recovery process in older industrial cities struggling with the consequences of economic restructuring and urban decline. Drawing on a research project, it uses findi...

Der Beitrag zeigt, inwiefern der Resilienzansatz in der Stadtforschung verwendet werden kann. Resilienz wird verstanden als die systemische Anpassungskapazität an sozioökonomische Krisensituationen. Es wird also der Frage nachgegangen, wie sich spezifische Systeme – wie hier das System der städtischen Wirtschaftsentwicklung – an sich verändernde Ra...

Das ExWoSt-Forschungsprojekt „Wieder erstarkte Städte – Strategien, Erfolgsfaktoren, Ergebnisse“ hat sich von September 2012 bis Oktober 2013 mit den Entwicklungen in Städten beschäftigt, in denen augenscheinlich Fortschritte bei der Überwindung von Strukturproblemen erzielt wurden. Ziel des Projekts war es, unter Berücksichtigung übergreifender na...

Zusammenfassung Multilokalität und Transnationalität stellen wichtige Ausprägungen spätmoderner Lebensweisen dar. Gemeinsames Kennzeichen der vielfältigen, darunter diskutierten Einzelformen ist eine ausgeprägte Mehrfachverortung, in deren Zuge Menschen immer weniger auf einen (Wohn-)Standort festgelegt sind. Dies wird vor allem über Netzwerke zwis...

High-skilled groups are regarded as a key asset for economic growth and urban development and are thus increasingly targeted by cities. Within this context, the paper analyses the effects of urban decline and intra-national migration trends on cities. The impact of both processes on population development varies considerably between cities and regi...

High-skilled groups are regarded as a key asset for economic growth and urban development and are thus increasingly targeted by cities. Within this context, the paper analyses the effects of urban decline and intra-national migration trends on cities. The impact of both processes on population development varies considerably between cities and regi...

The decline of cities in the industrialized world is usually a direct consequence of the process of economic restructuring. The collapse of the industrial base in these cities has been the main cause for many of the subsequent urban problems such as rising unemployment and welfare-dependency, population decline and out-migration or physical decay o...

Der vorliegende Beitrag widmet sich dem Freizeitverhalten Jugendlicher. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt auf der räumlichen Dimension der Freizeitgestaltung, also der Frage danach, wie und wo Jugendliche ihre Freizeit verbringen und welche Raumnutzungs- und Mobilitätsmuster sie dabei aufweisen.

The explosive growth of so-called marginal settlements in Latin America’s cities has received considerable academic attention in past decades. The inability of the state to adequately provide affordable housing for a rapidly growing urban population has meant that these neighbourhoods relied on community mobilization to achieve common objectives of...

Städte konkurrieren nicht nur um Unternehmen, sondern vermehrt auch um bestimmte Personengruppen. Gerade für die vom Niedergang der Industrien und den Folgeproblemen gezeichneten Städte und Regionen wie dem Ruhrgebiet stellt die Positionierung in diesem Wettbewerb eine große Herausforderung dar. Obwohl sich die dortige Wirtschaftsstruktur diversifi...

Jugendliche verfügen über vergleichsweise viel Freizeit. In der Lebensphase Jugend verbringen sie einen zunehmenden Teil des Tages außerhalb des Einflussbereichs ihrer Eltern, oftmals im Kreise ihrer – meist gleichaltrigen – Bezugsgruppe. Obwohl Jugendliche in Zyklen immer mal wieder im Fokus der öffentlichen und medialen Aufmerksamkeit stehen, lie...

Weak market cities' across European and America, or 'core cities' as they were in their heyday, went from being 'industrial giants' dominating their national, and eventually the global, economy, to being 'devastation zones'. In a single generation three quarters of all manufacturing jobs disappeared, leaving dislocated, impoverished communities, ru...

Since the 1990s, Latin American metropolises in most of the countries throughout the region have changed considerably due to the effects of globalisation and the implementation of neo-liberal politics (de Mattos 2002). According to Pradilla (1998, p. 195), the contemporary neo-liberal Latin American metropolis is a highly contradictory version of t...

Al igual que otras metrópolis latinoamericanas, Lima ha experimentado profundos cambios desde la década de 1990. Una característica del nuevo orden espacial es el aumento de áreas residenciales vigiladas. Por lo tanto, la capital peruana merece una atención especial. Este artículo hace un enfoque en los llamados enclaves residenciales. Debido a la...

This documentary booklet based on authors’ photographs and local eye-witness comments traces radical social and economic change in seven European post-industrial cities. Their cataclysmic decline and rebuilding has put them at the heart of national and international political ferment, spurring them on to uncover new ways of doing things. They showc...

Lima, like other Latin American metropolises, has experienced profound changes in the context of broader transformation processes since the 1990s. Gated residential developments have emerged as one characteristic feature of the new spatial order. The Peruvian capital shows some unique features however. “Typical” gated communities are relatively sel...

Lima, like other Latin American metropolises, has experienced profound changes in the context of broader transformation processes since the 1990s. Gated residential developments have emerged as one characteristic feature of the new spatial order. The Peruvian capital shows some unique features however. “Typical” gated communities are relatively sel...

Lima, like other Latin American metropolises, has experienced profound changes since the 1990s. The new spatial order is characterised by an increasing number of gated residential areas. The particular outcome in the Peruvian capital needs special attention however. This article focuses on the so-called residential enclaves. Due to a lack of prior...

Die gegenwärtige Überformung Limas resultiert aus der tiefgreifenden ökonomischen Krise während der 1980er Jahre und dem daraufhin eingeleiteten wirtschaftspolitischen Strukturwandel. Während die sozialen Ungleichheiten auf hohem Niveau stagnieren, ist der Staat nicht in der Lage, eine ausreichende und gleichmäßige Leistungsversorgung zu gewährleis...

In Peru, the severe economic crisis aggravated during the “lost decade” of the 1980s and the politics of neo-liberal structural adjustment applied thereupon since 1990, have had considerable socio-economic impacts. While the high levels of existing social inequalities are maintained, the population is confronted with a wide range of uncertainties r...

Gated Communities und andere Arten von Wohnenklaven sind mittlerweile ein weltweit verbreitetes Phänomen. In Lateinamerika sind abgeschlossene Wohnviertel seit mindes-tens zwei Jahrzehnten ein charakteristischer Bestandteil der Stadtstruktur. Zwischen den Ländern der Region gibt es jedoch zum Teil erhebliche Unterschiede hinsichtlich der Verbreitun...

Latin American cities have changed dramatically since the 1990ies. Under the influence of globalization and the implementation of rigid neo-liberal policies a beginning process of fragmentation of the urban structure in most of the cities throughout the region can be identified. The traditional sectoral-concentric model is being transformed into a...