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Immigrant City: Hospitality and the Displaced

Jasrapuria, Shreya
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin158400116874693

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2020, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
In this diasporic world as the city starts getting diverse each day, can architecture create a sense of belonging amongst the in-coming immigrant as well as the already established resident? “Hospitality” comes from the Latin word; hospes, meaning “host”, “guest”, or “stranger”; it can also be defined as the relationship be-tween the guest and the host. The growing number of international migrant population is often caught in this relationship. Immigrants leave their homes and countries to form new ones in sometimes an unfamiliar culture, which starts transforming their identity. The immigrants or guests are looking for connections with their past identities while trying to become a part of the new host culture and the host culture on the other hand, is constantly negotiating with its security and infiltration issues due to the new guest culture. This interaction comes with the problem of the delicate dialogue between the guest and the host where neither are wrong in their concerns of preserving their culture and gives rise to the question of the extent till which each should accommodate the other. Jac-que Derrida explains through his theories on hospitality the relationship between conditional and unconditional hospitality and the restricted nature of national hospitality to legal and illegal immigrants. Architecture when combined with this theory can play an important role in influ-encing an immigrant’s experience of a new place while reconnecting them with their identities. It can govern this relationship of the guest and a host while informing the experience of losing the sense of feel-ing at home and revealing the disintegrating entrance of Otherness into a coherent home space. The aim is to explore conditional and unconditional hospitality through ar-chitectural interventions in the planning of cities with a growing immigrant population to help maintain cultural continuity and hu-manize the present and future built environment. Chicago’s Devon Avenue being one of the biggest South Asian business districts in North America, holds a unique migrant identity, and expresses a necessity for a connection between the “home” and “host” identi-ties. Architectural interventions in the form of a network of busi-ness and refuge might create this bridge on this street which is oth-erwise losing its identity.
Elizabeth Riorden, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
91 p.
Architecture
Identity; Culture; Hospitality; Immigrant; Displaced; Jacque Derrida

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  • Jasrapuria, S. (2020). Immigrant City: Hospitality and the Displaced [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin158400116874693

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Jasrapuria, Shreya. Immigrant City: Hospitality and the Displaced. 2020. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin158400116874693.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Jasrapuria, Shreya. "Immigrant City: Hospitality and the Displaced." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin158400116874693

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