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Moving In/Out of Brussels' Historical Core in the Early 2000s: Migration and the Effects of Gentrification

Mathieu Van Criekingen

Department of Human Geography, Université Libre de Bruxelles, bvd du Triomphe CP 246, Brussels, 1050, Belgium, mvancrie{at}ulb.ac.be

Exploring migration dynamics associated with gentrification is particularly important in order to shed light on the nature and contested effects of such processes. Quite paradoxically, however, this aspect remains underinvestigated in the gentrification literature. This paper explores the migratory dimensions of gentrification in Brussels' historical core, hence offering a view from a city wherein current rounds of middle-class reinvestment of inner urban space operate under circumstances that partially contrast with those reported from more prominent global cities. Findings stress that educated young adults living alone and renting from private landlords are predominant among both in- and out-movers to or from Brussels' historical core, suggesting in turn that renting in a gentrifying area is for most of them associated with a transitional step in their housing career. In addition, findings indicate that displacement of vulnerable residents is a limited but actual constituent of the migration dynamics in Brussels' historical core and point to other harmful consequences of gentrification in the area. In Brussels, gentrification and its effects operate under circumstances associated with the preponderance of a poorly regulated private rental housing market in the city's inner neighbourhoods.

Urban Studies, Vol. 46, No. 4, 825-848 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0042098009102131
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