The Economies of Urban Diversity: The Ruhr Area and Istanbul

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
The Economies of Urban Diversity: An Introduction....Pages 1-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
The Concept of Diversity in Migration and Urban Studies....Pages 27-46
Plurality, Cosmopolitanism, and Integration: The Dangers of Comparing the Incomparable....Pages 47-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
From Guest Worker Migration to Transmigration: The German-Turkish Migratory Movements and the Special Role of Istanbul and the Ruhr....Pages 65-92
A Forgotten Chapter of Regional Social History: The Polish Immigrants to the Ruhr 1870–1939....Pages 93-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
From a Multiethnic Empire to Two National States: The Economic Activities of the Greek Orthodox Population of Istanbul, ca. 1870–1939....Pages 117-143
Greek Orthodox Communities and the Formation of an Urban Landscape in Late Ottoman Istanbul....Pages 145-163
The Turkish Migrant Economy in Dortmund—An Economy of Urban Diversity....Pages 165-187
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Residential Segregation of Turkish Migrants in the Ruhr Area—Reasons, Patterns and Policies....Pages 191-215
European Istanbul and Its Enemies: Istanbul’s Working Class as the Constitutive Outside of the Modern/European Istanbul....Pages 217-233
Urban Space and Gentrification in Istanbul in the Twentieth Century....Pages 235-254
Back Matter....Pages 255-265