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Database research record2020·Denmark (Copenhagen)

‘Cultivating Integration’? Migrant Space-making in Urban Gardens

Linda Lapiņa

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This article explores how migrants create space within integration gardens in Copenhagen, an urban gardening association aiming to dismantle social and cultural boundaries. The gardens function as both an "integration grid" centered on a foreigner–Dane binary and a "web of gardening" focused on plants and practices. The analysis juxtaposes these spatiotemporal logics to understand the possibilities for action and relating they offer.