Refugee life, refugee space: Ankara as a bottom‐up alternative
| Published date | 01 June 2023 |
| Author | Allan Cooper Dell |
| Date | 01 June 2023 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13032 |
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International Migration. 2023;61:210–221.
wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/imig
Received: 17 Decem ber 2021
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Revised: 25 Apri l 2022
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Accepted: 20 May 2022
DOI: 10.1111/imig.13032
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Refugee life, refugee space: Ankara as a
bottom- up alternative
Allan Cooper Dell
© 2022 Internat ional Organizat ion for Migration.
Area Studies D epartment, M iddle East
Technical Univer sity, Ankara, Turkey
Correspondence
Allan Coope r Dell, ODTÜ, Sosyal B ilimler
Enstitüsü, Ü niversiteler Mah ., Dulumpınar
Blv. No: 1 Bina: MM, K at: 4, 06800
Çankaya/Ankara, Turkey.
Email: dell.cooper@metu.edu.tr
Abstract
During research conduc ted in t he summer of 2020, I ob-
served the advanced margin ality of the refugees in Ankara,
Turkey. Whil e some author s have examined this precar-
ity, and so me other s have examined how refugees have
begun to live in a spatially d istinct sec tion of certain cit-
ies, the combination of these t wo phen omena d emands
further i nvestigation. If the unde rpinning truly is spati al as
claimed by Lefebvre (The production of space. Oxford and
Cambridge: Blackwell, 1991), then t he precarious subject
and the precarious space co- produce each other. What this
paper intends to do is to combine space and precarity using
the observations of Wacquant (Urban poverty and the un-
derclass: a reader. Oxford a nd Cambridge: Black well, 1996,
Urban Studies, 2016, 53, 1077) in his various ana lyses on
the ghetto in France and the United States. In Wacquant's
work, we can begin to see a spatial conception of precarity,
and we can further ex tend this to the point that as space is
a produc tion and its subjects are als o a co- constitution of
that space. Nevertheless, Sampson (Ethnic & Racial Studies,
2014, 37, 1732) points out a cer tain state centrism in
Wacquant's analysis. Building upon this, as well as the work
of Roy (International Jou rnal of Urban and Regional Research,
2011, 35, 223 and Territories of povert y: rethinking north and
south. Athens: University of Georgia Press , 2015), we c an
offer the refugee neighbourhood in Ankara as an example
of “bottom - up” agenc y, al ternative to Wacqua nt's original
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