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

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

Batuman, Bülent
Kilinç, Kivanç

Hardcover

Series: Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East

General World HistoryArchitecture HistoryImmigration & Refugees

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ISBN10: 1789389003
ISBN13: 9781789389005
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Published: Mar 19 2024
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.58
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
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.

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