Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Urban Migrant Inclusion and Refugee Protection, VOL. 2: Global Perspectives of Sanctuary, Solidarity, and Hospitality, Harald Bauder,Mary B. Setrana, Editör, Springer, London/Berlin , Zug, ss.167-184, 2025
This chapter focuses on how the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) negotiates the limits of inclusion and exclusion of migrants and refugees to public services and institutional solidarity structures. With a specific focus on the IMM’s Directorate for Migration and Social Cohesion, we scrutinise how the municipality created a vision for an inclusive city after the 2019 local elections and how it negotiates Turkey’s polarised political context and shapes different strategies to include migrants and refugees in its municipal services. Turkey’s hierarchical refugee governance structure also impacts IMM’s abilities and forces it to maintain a strategic invisibility. Exclusion of migrants and refugees coexists with their invisible inclusion into support and solidarity structures at the urban scale. An analysis of the IMM’s migration policy and services also enables us to discuss the applicability of the solidarity city concept in a novel geographical context.