Refugees of a City: The Socio-Spatial Impacts of Those Syrian Refugees who Arrived in Izmir, Turkey
Refugees of a City: The Socio-Spatial Impacts of Those Syrian Refugees who Arrived in Izmir, Turkey

Author(s): Arife Karadağ
Subject(s): Politics, Geography, Regional studies, Public Law, Welfare systems, Migration Studies, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Turkey; Izmir; Syrian refugees; socio-spatial impacts;
Summary/Abstract: In the last century, hundreds of thousands of people from the Balkan wars (1912-1913), from the population exchange between Turkey and Greece (1923- 1924), from the Balkan countries (1950-1951 and 1978-1979), from Bulgaria (1989), from the Eastern and South-eastern Anatolia Region (the 1990s), and finally from Syria (as of 2012) left their homeland through forced migration and settled in Turkey. One of the cities most affected by this process is İzmir - the third biggest city of the country. Those people who venture migration merely to live and for a safe future deal with an inhumane life such as poverty, pressure, and otherization in the places where they go. There is no doubt that each migration flow also negatively affects the labor processes in cities, the urban infrastructure, and the socio-economic life of the city.

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