Spatial Segregation and Politics of Equilibrium in Mersin: Unintended Consequences of Forced Migration
Spatial Segregation and Politics of Equilibrium in Mersin: Unintended Consequences of Forced Migration

Author(s): Bediz Yılmaz
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies, Political history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), Social differentiation, Studies in violence and power, 19th Century, The Ottoman Empire, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Turkey; Ottoman Empire; Mersin; migration; segregation; politics; forced migration;
Summary/Abstract: More than twenty years after the peak of forced migration process, we have an important bulk of knowledge related to this phenomenon thanks to many academic works conducted on its political as well as social aspects. We know that, being an involuntary form of migration, it differs considerably from the economic (i.e. voluntary) waves of migration both quantitatively and qualitatively: it is massive, unprepared neither in material nor immaterial terms, it leaves the migrants deprived of supporting resources from the village, the hostile environment in the urban setting marked by a stigmatising discourse. Thus, the consequences related to the integration-adaptation-survival of the forced migrants in the cities are also different.

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