Closing this dissertation, the Epilogue invites the reader to rethink today's city through prefigurative practices, hopes, and dreams of the residents of The Dzjangal, Tiburtina, and Los Arenales. It suggests looking at their placemaking through the lens of ‘Somewhere Inbetween’, acknowledging their migratory narratives, resistances, and resilience toward the border regime. As well as their proposal of a more inclusive urban landscape that reflects the diversity inherent in migratory flows. These communities resist the marginalization imposed by border regimes by creating alternative placemaking. Through these convivial approaches, they rethink urban spaces, collective projects, and coexistence within postcolonial and postmigrant cities.
As I delve into the social exploration of inbetween spaces and the autonomous strategies of those in transit, I confront the repercussions of contemporary border regimes, particularly in the formation of
so-called refugee camps. Many of these places have developed convivial strategies and politics of urbanization in a postcolonial era that are worthy of scholarly investigation due to their relevance for the study of migration, political subjectivity, critical geography and urbanism, and the current debate on a reflexive postcolonial. In a border regimen setting, self-made settlements have been marginally labeled as ‘non-places’ (Augé, 1995), ‘places of exception’ (Agamben, 2005), and ‘peripheral places’ (Gregory et al., 2009). These places, especially the case studies of The Dzjangal, Tiburtina and Arenales examined in this dissertation, have resisted this marginalization by developing alternative models of urbanism and placemaking. In this Epilogue I examine their political and social strategies that have produced alternative ways of life that are actively part of the city. The Dzjangal, Tiburtina and Los Arenales not only contribute to the dynamics of postmodern cities, but also invite us to rethink what the city is today, what rights it has and how we can develop collective projects to break the barriers between the binary notion of 'periphery' and 'center' in postcolonial and postmigrant neighborhoods and cities.
so-called refugee camps. Many of these places have developed convivial strategies and politics of urbanization in a postcolonial era that are worthy of scholarly investigation due to their relevance for the study of migration, political subjectivity, critical geography and urbanism, and the current debate on a reflexive postcolonial. In a border regimen setting, self-made settlements have been marginally labeled as ‘non-places’ (Augé, 1995), ‘places of exception’ (Agamben, 2005), and ‘peripheral places’ (Gregory et al., 2009). These places, especially the case studies of The Dzjangal, Tiburtina and Arenales examined in this dissertation, have resisted this marginalization by developing alternative models of urbanism and placemaking. In this Epilogue I examine their political and social strategies that have produced alternative ways of life that are actively part of the city. The Dzjangal, Tiburtina and Los Arenales not only contribute to the dynamics of postmodern cities, but also invite us to rethink what the city is today, what rights it has and how we can develop collective projects to break the barriers between the binary notion of 'periphery' and 'center' in postcolonial and postmigrant neighborhoods and cities.