A dwelling lens

Migration, diversity and boundary-making in an Istanbul neighbourhood

Bibliographic Data

ID2148192
AuthorsKristen Sarah Biehl (0000-0002-4350-9515, Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence, Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume43
Issue12
Pages2236-2254
Publication date2020-09-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2019.1668035
OpenAlexW2976327866
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited40

In recent decades research on migration has taken a "diversity turn", which focuses on exploring new complexities of social differentiation, people's competences for getting along in everyday life despite growing differences, and the role of space in shaping these encounters. Recent scholarship, however, has also questioned some of its limits and oversights, particularly around how differences and space are studied and conceived. This article centres on an examination of boundary-making processes and proposes a "dwelling lens" for constructively engaging with these different critiques. It builds on in-depth ethnographic accounts of housing discourses in Istanbul's Kumkapı neighbourhood, a place deeply impacted by migration driven population changes. In exploring what differences matter today in housing access and why, the article examines how dwelling, as both method and concept, contributes to a better understanding of the social and spatial impacts and dynamism of migration driven diversity in the contemporary city

Diversity (politics · Dynamism · Economic geography · Economic growth · Epistemology · Ethnography · Geography · Neighbourhood (mathematics · Political science · Population · Scholarship · Sociology · Urbanization · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Turkey's Politics and Society · Urban Planning and Governance

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