PRODUCTION OF SPACE AND SOCIAL COHESION: ROMA, IRAQIS, AND LOCALS IN THE ANKARA NEIGHBORHOOD OF DEMIRLIBAHÇE

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2021-1
KARAYİĞİT, HAKKI OZAN
This research investigates the relationship between social cohesion and the production of space through the socio-spatial transformations that four specific streets of Ankara’s Demirlibahçe neighborhood have been experiencing. The primary aim of focusing on these four streets, which have been appropriated by three communities (Roma, Turkmen migrants from Iraq/Telafer, and locals) is to scrutinize how the production of space in particular streets hampers possible social cohesion at the local level. In relation to the first, a second aim is to investigate to what extent immigrants’ spatial practices become the basis of their sense of belonging, while in return creating differential spaces within the streets where preexisting social cohesion between the locals and Roma is reshaped. The study presents the ongoing socio-spatial transformations within the Demirlibahçe neighborhood, through tracing three groups’ social cohesion processes in/to space and community.

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H. O. KARAYİĞİT, “PRODUCTION OF SPACE AND SOCIAL COHESION: ROMA, IRAQIS, AND LOCALS IN THE ANKARA NEIGHBORHOOD OF DEMIRLIBAHÇE,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2021.