SIGNATURE WORK
CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION 2024

My Signature Work project seeks to answer the following research question; how do urban green space distribution and management practices reflect low-income im/migrant segregation in U.S. and European cities? Moreover, the project is interested in knowing how urban green space accessibility and quality impact low-income im/migrant lifestyles. Migration flows between low-income, conflict-fraught countries to prosperous economies is a topic of special academic and political interest in current times. Migrant flows to the United States, Western Europe, and some Gulf Countries are especially substantial. Cities tend to absorb a high share of im/migration flows. Obviously, low-income population expansion puts pressure on urban green infrastructure development, activating tensions in political conflicts lined with racial, socio-economic, and religious discourses. Sometimes, environmental justice dioceses combine across historically disenfranchised minorities, like im/migrants and African American nationals in the United States. I think that the political relevance of this topic that ultimately features natural systems as protagonists make this Signature Work project’s research question fit well within the Environmental Science and Public Policy major degree program.