Thomas Aguilera’s research while affiliated with Sciences Po Lille and other places

... In London regeneration schemes, eligibility for rehousing after social housing estate demolition is also heavily stratified, albeit that secure council tenants have the most rehousing rights for any new properties which are built, with homeowners offered cash compensation (but often at not enough money to remain in the renewed area), while private tenants have hardly any rights (Hodkinson and Essen 2015;Watt 2021). This crucial issue of eligibility is examined by Aguilera (2024) in his paper on Madrid' s slum clearance programme in this Special Feature. ...

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Special Feature: Putting urban displacement in its place

... The incremental nature of these policies became evident through a few events that marked the political debate. One noteworthy event was the occupation of riverbanks by the 'Les Enfants de Don Quichotte association and homeless individuals following the enactment of the DALO law in 2007, which mandated prefects to provide housing or shelter to those without it (Aguilera, 2020). Quietly, activists and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have been organising local protests and demonstrations for Eastern European migrants and homeless families and against shantytowns for about two decades (Vacca, et al., 2022). ...

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The Policy of Refugee Reception and the Policing of Public Space in Paris

... 60 In this vein, Thomas Aguilera has emphasised the relative success of onsite interventions by NGOs in the Global South to advocate the normalising and regularising of slums as an alternative to removal and rehousing in Northern 'slums' (that is, migrant dwellings in Paris and Madrid). 61 So far, the North seems to be unwilling to learn from the South in this regard. Nevertheless, confronting a phenomenon with an equivalent in a different part of the world holds remarkable critical potential. ...

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Towards critique and differentiation: Comparative research on informal housing

... L'observation territoriale est donc historiquement une affaire d'État (Lenormand, 2011). Quelle que soit l'échelle de gouvernement, la connaissance des territoires et des populations est un enjeu pour les autorités publiques (Aguilera et al., 2021). En termes scottiens, la En outre, en s'investissant directement dans les projets d'observatoires fonciers, la société civile tend à se positionner comme un producteur de savoirs sur le foncier. ...

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Promesses et effets des observatoires fonciers : une géographie politique de dispositifs sociotechniques pour le développement en contextes africains et sénégalais (1980/2022)

... My approach can be described as mixed methods: " the combination of quantitative and qualitative methods in the same research" (Aguilera and Chevalier 2021a;Bergman 2008). In this sense, it is rather commonplace in the social sciences, "because they [the mixed methods] have in fact been at the heart of social science practice from the outset, [...] i.e. mobilising a diversity of methods to consolidate an explanation and strengthen the results" (Aguilera and Chevalier 2021a). ...

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20. Mixing geoarchaeology, geohistory and ethnology to reconstruct landscape changes on the longue durée

... Here, the quantitative approach ("data analysis methods based essentially on the statistical processing of a large number of data collected as part of the empirical testing of the research problem") (Coman et al. 2022, cited by Aguilera and Chevalier 2021b) is that of processing and statistical representation such as in geomorphological sampling campaigns involving sedimentological data and their analysis (see Lane,Chapter 42). Qualitative methods can be defined as "analysis methods based on the in-depth processing of a small number of data" (Lamont and White, 2005) collected "using ethnographic methods, semi-structured interviews, archival research or the collection of reports" (Aguilera and Chevalier 2021b). In my work, they relate historical approaches in the geosciences, labelled geo-history, and ethnological approaches ( Fig. 20.1). ...

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20. Mixing geoarchaeology, geohistory and ethnology to reconstruct landscape changes on the longue durée

... The traditional discourse on legality implies a north-south divide (see, among others, Aguilera and Smart, 2016;Pizzo and Altavilla, 2017), indicating that it is not universally uniform. Instead, legality becomes influenced by distinct legal frameworks, norms, and practices. ...

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Gray legality: Varying degrees of housing illegality in Berlin’s rental cap

... A necessidade de renda extra potencializada pela crise de 2008, a chegada da geração millenial em idade economicamente ativa e os avanços tecnológicos são fatores que explicam o crescimento da Economia do Compartilhamento e o crescimento do Airbnb (Fernandes et al., 2018;Gallagher, 2019). A retração do Estado, fator importante para o crescimento da Economia do Compartilhamento (Fernandes et al., 2018) e do capitalismo de plataforma (Srnicek, 2017), também foi decisiva para o avanço do Airbnb em Portugal, que autorizou descongelamento de aluguéis e contribuiu para a alteração dos aluguéis de longo para curto prazo (Aguilera et al., 2019a;Fernandes et al., 2019;Brossat, 2019). ...

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Airbnb no Brasil: uma nova agenda de pesquisa para os estudos urbanos

... This use of selective toleration (Smart and Aguilera, 2020) of non-compliance illustrates the role of the state in the persistence of informal or substandard forms of housing. Some authors see this as a strategic use of informality (Jaffe and Koster, 2019), to meet urgent needs (Picker, 2019). ...

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Subaltern housing policies: Accommodating migrant workers in wealthy Geneva

... Ogget- to di conflitti spesso demagogici, al centro di un flusso continuo di informazioni e di reportage mediatici, evidenzia i problemi del mercato immobiliare e delle politiche edilizie nelle città europee. I Governi locali e nazionali giocano spesso la carta dell'igno- ranza per depoliticizzare questioni nelle quali preferiscono non spendersi (Aguilera 2014). ...

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Baraccopoli europee: Le responsabilità delle politiche pubbliche