University of Minnesota—Duluth.
Urban Stud. 2011;48(4):641-60. doi: 10.1177/0042098009360687.
The relationship between "neighbourhood" and "community" is contentious: while neighbourhoods are spatially based, communities are more amorphous institutions that are connected to local places through far-flung transnational networks. Dominican corner-store owners (bodegueros) in Philadelphia, USA, understand their role in their local neighbourhood community as a form of "temporary permanence" because their economic development model involves building networks between the US and the Dominican Republic. The mobility practices of grocers and interviews with community leaders in Philadelphia are used to make two propositions about constructions of place-based "neighbourhood communities" in the US: the mobility of the grocers highlights the spatial entrapment experienced by other urban residents and thus their embrace of place-based communities; and, in the mobility of the grocers and conversations with some neighbourhood leaders, we see actualised a more fluid and expansive understanding of the concept of a "neighbourhood community" which is embedded in transnational networks.
“邻里”和“社区”之间的关系存在争议：虽然邻里是以空间为基础的，但社区是更加模糊的机构，通过远程跨国网络与当地地方联系在一起。美国费城的多米尼加街角店主（bodegueros）理解他们在当地邻里社区中的角色是一种“暂时的永久性”，因为他们的经济发展模式涉及在美国和多米尼加共和国之间建立网络。杂货商的流动实践和对费城社区领袖的采访，提出了关于美国基于地点的“邻里社区”构建的两个命题：杂货商的流动突出了其他城市居民所经历的空间困境，因此他们拥抱基于地点的社区；而且，在杂货商的流动和与一些邻里领袖的对话中，我们看到了对“邻里社区”概念的更具流动性和扩展性的理解，该概念嵌入在跨国网络中。
