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The Urban Refugee: Space, Displacement, and the New Urban Condition

by Bülent Batuman
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781789389005
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Intellect (UK)
  • Publisher Imprint: Intellect (UK)
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  • Pages: 280
  • Original Price: GBP 109.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 717 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Social History, History / Contemporary (1945-), and Refugees

This book focuses on the spatial forms and urban consequences of forced migration.

The presence of the refugee in the contemporary metropolis is marked by precarity, a quality that has become a characteristic feature of the neoliberal urban milieu. Bringing together essays from diverse disciplines, from architectural history to cultural anthropology and urban planning, this collection sheds light on both the specificities of the contemporary urban condition that affects the refugees and the multi-dimensional impact that the refugees have on the city. The authors propose investigating this connection through three interlinked themes: identity (informality, imagination, and belonging); place (transnational homemaking practices); and site (the navigation of urban space).

In recent years, there has been a significant growth in scholarship on forced migration, particularly on the relationship between displacement and the built environment. Scholars have focused on spatial practices and forms that arise under conditions of displacement, with much attention given to refugee camps and the social and political aspects of temporariness. While these issues are important, the essays in this volume aim to contribute to a less explored aspect of displacement, namely the interaction between refugees and the cities they inhabit. In this respect, the volume underlines the specificity of the urban refugee as well as their spatial agency and investigates the irreversible effect they have on the contemporary urban condition.

Batuman, Bülent: - Bülent Batuman is associate professor of architecture at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. His recent work focuses on the relationship between Islamism and the built environment.

Kilinç, Kivanç: - Kıvanç Kılınç is associate professor of architectural history at Izmir Institute of Technology (IYTE), Turkey. His current research focuses on the transnational cultural and material exchanges that shaped contemporary social housing practices in Turkey and the Middle East.

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