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Migrants and Non-Migrants Perception and Preferences

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Landscape Culture - Culturing Landscapes

Part of the book series: RaumFragen: Stadt – Region – Landschaft ((RFSRL))

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The increasing number of migrants and immigrants with Asian origin and a background of religion and philosophy like Buddhism is leading to a growing number of temple landscapes in Sweden, such as the King Chulalongkorn Memorial Building (Thai pavilion) in Jämtland and the Buddharama Temple (still under construction) in Fredrika, which would even be the largest Buddhist temple in Europe when finished. Moreover, the perception and estimation of both migrants and non-migrants are in like manner influenced by this multi-cultural environment (Buddhist Landscape). However, native and non-native people show a different recognition and understanding of temples as a result of their cultural background.

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This paper focuses on immigrant and native children, comparing, by means of landscape perception analysis, the role that landscape plays in these children’s relationships with everyday life places. Landscape is here “used” to investigate children’s points of view and different experiences in the frame of integration processes. In this sense landscape is understood as a kind of catalysing tool, linking physical characteristics of a place (denotative) and meanings attributed to them (connotative).

Two study cases in the Veneto region – one urban, one rural setting – are presented, where immigration is currently changing territorial dynamics and social relations. The study focuses on Italian and foreign children aged 12 and employs a diversified qualitative approach including auto-photography as the main research method. Pictures taken by children were also used in photo-elicitation during interviews and focus groups. 462 pictures were collected and classified into different categories, accounting for both their denotative and connotative content. Concerning the last, place attachment, social relationships and functional value are more frequent as meanings assigned to everyday-life landscapes than aesthetic value, collective sense of place, and ecological value. Through statistical analysis it is possible to highlight three different styles used by children in relating with everyday life landscapes: “I am in it”, “We live in it” and “I look at it”. The latter is mostly chosen by immigrant children: their gaze seems more uncertain and hesitant, and yet also more curious and careful. These peculiarities might be enhanced and strengthen as capabilities in the integration process“.

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In Romania, several traditional cultural landscapes are of special interest because of their extraordinary quality. Until today they are inhabited and managed by societies of different ethnicities. For the assessment and preservation of natural and cultural heritage, landscape perception by the given group of inhabitants – and not merely the expert’s view – is of key interest. After an introduction to the “ethnic landscapes approach” this chapter presents a method for analyzing landscape perceptions of social groups as well as the result of a first application by Solymosi (2011). We outline a research programme for a comparative landscape analysis for Romanian landscapes inhabited, managed and perceived by different ethnicities.

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    Na Xiu

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    Benedetta Castiglioni, Alessia De Nardi & Gianpiero Dalla-Zuanna

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    Johannes Gnädinger

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    Katalin Solymosi

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    Inge Paulini

  6. Budapest, Ungarn

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Xiu, N. et al. (2015). Migrants and Non-Migrants Perception and Preferences. In: Bruns, D., Kühne, O., Schönwald, A., Theile, S. (eds) Landscape Culture - Culturing Landscapes. RaumFragen: Stadt – Region – Landschaft. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-04284-4_6

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