Adding the “New” Inhabitant to the Design of Urban Area and Social Work for Refugees
With the mass migration from Syria to Turkey in 2011, Gaziantep, the most developed city in the Syrian border, became a focal place. The high numbers of Syrian refugees led to an urban transformation, during which many international and national NGO’s started to work in the city. Both of the migrati...
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| description | With the mass migration from Syria to Turkey in 2011, Gaziantep, the most developed city in the Syrian border, became a focal place. The high numbers of Syrian refugees led to an urban transformation, during which many international and national NGO’s started to work in the city. Both of the migrations ended up with an important raise in the rents, and created new strata. This paper, which covers the relations in 2016 and 2017 in Gaziantep, is an outcome of my own observations in the field I developed as a former NGO worker, and the findings of an independent field research I conducted in 2017. This work makes a reflexive reading of socio-spatial dynamics between locals, refugees and NGO workers to scrutinize the ways to engage socio-spatial dynamics to the social services mechanism. The reading aim is to pose the contribution of their combined value, in both implementation and evaluation processes. The presentation of the data aims to bring into discussion this power balance between the local, the refugee and the service provider over its impact on the city surface. It is believed that deciphering these paths and nodes would support a better understanding of the refugee situation and the newly developed urban dynamics. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-71737f79cd5249daaf59b5281ec07aa12025-08-20T02:15:59ZengIstanbul University PressJournal of Economy Culture and Society2645-87722019-10-0160456010.26650/JECS2019-0045123456Adding the “New” Inhabitant to the Design of Urban Area and Social Work for RefugeesPınar Karababa0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1565-9409İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi, İstanbul, TürkiyeWith the mass migration from Syria to Turkey in 2011, Gaziantep, the most developed city in the Syrian border, became a focal place. The high numbers of Syrian refugees led to an urban transformation, during which many international and national NGO’s started to work in the city. Both of the migrations ended up with an important raise in the rents, and created new strata. This paper, which covers the relations in 2016 and 2017 in Gaziantep, is an outcome of my own observations in the field I developed as a former NGO worker, and the findings of an independent field research I conducted in 2017. This work makes a reflexive reading of socio-spatial dynamics between locals, refugees and NGO workers to scrutinize the ways to engage socio-spatial dynamics to the social services mechanism. The reading aim is to pose the contribution of their combined value, in both implementation and evaluation processes. The presentation of the data aims to bring into discussion this power balance between the local, the refugee and the service provider over its impact on the city surface. It is believed that deciphering these paths and nodes would support a better understanding of the refugee situation and the newly developed urban dynamics.https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/1E8C817570AD40309C70FD36CF2A76A6mass migrationurban transformationtemporary protection of turkeysocio-spatial dialecticsgaziantep |
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| title | Adding the “New” Inhabitant to the Design of Urban Area and Social Work for Refugees |
| title_full | Adding the “New” Inhabitant to the Design of Urban Area and Social Work for Refugees |
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| title_short | Adding the “New” Inhabitant to the Design of Urban Area and Social Work for Refugees |
| title_sort | adding the new inhabitant to the design of urban area and social work for refugees |
| topic | mass migration urban transformation temporary protection of turkey socio-spatial dialectics gaziantep |
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