Research Article

Adding the “New” Inhabitant to the Design of Urban Area and Social Work for Refugees

Number: 60 October 22, 2019
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Adding the “New” Inhabitant to the Design of Urban Area and Social Work for Refugees

Abstract

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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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Sociology

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Publication Date

October 22, 2019

Submission Date

May 15, 2019

Acceptance Date

October 30, 2019

Published in Issue

Year 2019 Number: 60

DOI

https://doi.org/10.26650/JECS2019-0045

IZ

https://izlik.org/JA97BT55SC

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APA
Karababa, P. (2019). Adding the “New” Inhabitant to the Design of Urban Area and Social Work for Refugees. Journal of Economy Culture and Society, 60, 45-60. https://doi.org/10.26650/JECS2019-0045
AMA
1.Karababa P. Adding the “New” Inhabitant to the Design of Urban Area and Social Work for Refugees. Journal of Economy Culture and Society. 2019;(60):45-60. doi:10.26650/JECS2019-0045
Chicago
Karababa, Pınar. 2019. “Adding the ‘New’ Inhabitant to the Design of Urban Area and Social Work for Refugees”. Journal of Economy Culture and Society, nos. 60: 45-60. https://doi.org/10.26650/JECS2019-0045.
EndNote
Karababa P (October 1, 2019) Adding the “New” Inhabitant to the Design of Urban Area and Social Work for Refugees. Journal of Economy Culture and Society 60 45–60.
IEEE
[1]P. Karababa, “Adding the ‘New’ Inhabitant to the Design of Urban Area and Social Work for Refugees”, Journal of Economy Culture and Society, no. 60, pp. 45–60, Oct. 2019, doi: 10.26650/JECS2019-0045.
ISNAD
Karababa, Pınar. “Adding the ‘New’ Inhabitant to the Design of Urban Area and Social Work for Refugees”. Journal of Economy Culture and Society. 60 (October 1, 2019): 45-60. https://doi.org/10.26650/JECS2019-0045.
JAMA
1.Karababa P. Adding the “New” Inhabitant to the Design of Urban Area and Social Work for Refugees. Journal of Economy Culture and Society. 2019;:45–60.
MLA
Karababa, Pınar. “Adding the ‘New’ Inhabitant to the Design of Urban Area and Social Work for Refugees”. Journal of Economy Culture and Society, no. 60, Oct. 2019, pp. 45-60, doi:10.26650/JECS2019-0045.
Vancouver
1.Pınar Karababa. Adding the “New” Inhabitant to the Design of Urban Area and Social Work for Refugees. Journal of Economy Culture and Society. 2019 Oct. 1;(60):45-60. doi:10.26650/JECS2019-0045