Bülent Batuman is an associate professor of architecture at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. He studied at the Middle East Technical University and received his Ph.D. in History and Theory of Art and Architecture from Binghamton University, SUNY, USA. His recent work focuses on the relationship between Islamism and the built environment.Kıvanç Kılınç is associate professor at Izmir Institute of Technology (IYTE), Turkey. He received his Ph.D. in the History and Theory of Art and Architecture Graduate Program at Binghamton University, SUNY, USA. His current research focuses on the transnational cultural and material exchanges, and their consequences, which shaped contemporary social housing practices in Turkey and the Middle East.

• List of Figures ix Acknowledgements xi Introduction: The Urban Refugee: Migration, Neoliberalism, and the City 1 Bülent BatumanPart 1. On Identity: Informality, Imagination, and Belonging 25 Chapter 1. Urban Refugees and Differential Inclusion through Urban Informality in Denizli, Turkey 27 Eda Sevinin Chapter 2. Syrian Children’s Imagination and Play Areas beyond the Physical Reality of Urban Spaces in Beirut 51Roula El Khoury and Paola Ardizzola Chapter 3. From Longing to Belonging: Arab American Cultural Adaptation and Refugee Resettlement Practices in Houston, Texas and the Gulf Coast 73 Maria F. CurtisPart 2. On Place: Transnational Homemaking Practices 101 Chapter 4. Opening Your Home to The Other: Living with a Stranger, Citizens Hosting Exiles in Ile de France 103Stéphanie Dadour Chapter 5. Housing Syrian Refugees in Saida under Protracted Displacement: Unfolding Spatial and Social Exclusion 127Howayda Al-Harithy, Abir Eltayeb, and Ali KhodrChapter 6. Transnational Homemaking in Somali Malls: Cape Town, and Minneapolis 159 Huda TayobPart 3. On Site: Navigating the Urban Space 181 Chapter 7. Syrian Refugees’ Location Choice in Urban Areas as a Subjective Process: A Cross-case Comparison of Önder (Ankara) and Yunusemre (Izmir) Neighbourhoods 183Feriha Nazda Güngördü and Zerrin Ezgi Haliloğlu Kahraman Chapter 8. Gaza Buildings: Architectures of Precarity in Sabra, Beirut 213Are John KnudsenChapter 9. Transience, Marginality, and Spaces of Refuge: Basmane Hotels District in Izmir 233Kıvanç Kılınç and Şebnem YücelContributor Biographies 255 Index 259

‘This book redefines the urban as a phenomenon of refugeehood, a circumstance of people simultaneously in and out of place, where logic or logistic of control coalesces with the unrestraint experiential quality of the urban. Batuman and Kilinc have brought together contributors committed to take seriously the agency and subjectivity of refugees in the co-production of urban space and in claiming the rights to the city. Together, they engage significant research materials with critical concepts in urban studies that cut across the North-South divide. They have made us aware that the global urban present and future is unthinkable without recognizing the phenomena of refugeehood that mediate the consequences of built environments and complex strategies of place-making.’