The Urban Refugee (EPUB) von Bülent Batuman

This collection focuses on the spatial forms and urban consequences of forced migration. The chapters shed light on the multiple dimensions of the refugees’ urban experiences from the scale of the interiors to inner city neighborhoods and informal settlements, and from personal accounts to the formation of public discourse. 70 b/w illus.

List of Figures ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: The Urban Refugee: Migration, Neoliberalism, and the City 1
      Bülent Batuman

Part 1. On Identity: Informality, Imagination, and Belonging 25
Chapter 1. Urban Refugees and Differential Inclusion through Urban Informality in Denizli, Turkey 27
      Eda Sevinin
Chapter 2. Syrian Children’s Imagination and Play Areas beyond the Physical Reality of Urban Spaces in Beirut 51
      Roula El Khoury and Paola Ardizzola
Chapter 3. From Longing to Belonging: Arab American Cultural Adaptation and Refugee Resettlement Practices in Houston, Texas and the Gulf Coast 73
      Maria F. Curtis

Part 2. On Place: Transnational Homemaking Practices 101
Chapter 4. Opening Your Home to The Other: Living with a Stranger, Citizens Hosting Exiles in Ile de France 103
      Stéphanie Dadour
Chapter 5. Housing Syrian Refugees in Saida under Protracted Displacement: Unfolding Spatial and Social Exclusion 127
      Howayda Al-Harithy, Abir Eltayeb, and Ali Khodr
Chapter 6. Transnational Homemaking in Somali Malls: Cape Town, and Minneapolis 159
      Huda Tayob

Part 3. On Site: Navigating the Urban Space 181
Chapter 7. Syrian Refugees’ Location Choice in Urban Areas as a Subjective Process: A Cross-case Comparison of Önder (Ankara) and Yunusemre (Izmir) Neighbourhoods 183
      Feriha Nazda Güngördü and Zerrin Ezgi Haliloğlu Kahraman
Chapter 8. Gaza Buildings: Architectures of Precarity in Sabra, Beirut 213
      Are John Knudsen
Chapter 9. Transience, Marginality, and Spaces of Refuge: Basmane Hotels District in Izmir 233
      Kıvanç Kılınç and Şebnem Yücel

Contributor Biographies 255
Index 259