By Ahmet İçduygu, Koç University IntroductionOver the course of the twentieth century, urban studies and migration studies evolved as largely parallel intellectual traditions. Each generated rich literatures, methodological toolkits, and policy framings, but they only occasionally spoke to one another in ways that treated migration and the city as mutually constitutive processes. Urban studies, rooted in sociology, planning, geography and architecture, concentrated on urban form, governance, political economy and social...Read More
By Van Hoang, University of Amsterdam Architecting the socio-spatial conditions for belonging in rapidly changing urban districts is as vital as roads, schools, and water lines. Hanoi’s West Lake – simultaneously a refuge for youth culture and a cosmopolitan “expat enclave” – concentrates these pressures. For local youth of Hanoi, the lake’s perimeter paths, informal hangouts and unpoliced niches have long anchored social life and identity. Yet the same area...Read More
By Ayşen Üstübici and Zeynep Sena Uzunboy, Koç University, Istanbul Historically, cities in general, some neighborhoods in particular, have been the main destinations for internal migrants from rural areas and for newly arrived international migrants. Zeytinburnu has historically been a first-stop “arrival neighborhood” because of its mix of old industrial areas (textile, leather), the availability of inexpensive workshops and housing (often with shops beneath residential units). Its long-standing tradition of...Read More
By Ricard Zapata-Barrero, GRITIM, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona A re-examination of the local turn literature (Zapata-Barrero et al., 2017), with a focus on the normative assumptions that has helped to articulate the debates, may necessitate a re-set of the local turn so as to broaden the scope of cities. This would include, but not be limited to, those that are active, though probably less migrant-friendly. The exclusive cities are those...Read More
Double panel "International migration and peripheral places: Exploring 'left behindness' through the human mobility lens" at the 2025 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Detroit!Read More
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