The Economies of Urban Diversity: The Ruhr Area and Istanbul

The Economics of Urban Diversity explores ethnic and religious minorities in urban economies. In this exciting work, the contributors develop an integrative approach to urban diversity and economy by employing concepts from different studies and linking historical and contemporary analyses of economic, societal, demographic, and cultural development. Contributors from a variety of disciplines -- geography, economics, history, sociology, anthropology, and planning -- make for a transdisciplinary analysis of past and present migration-related economic and social issues, which helps to better understand the situation of ethnic and religious minorities in metropolitan areas today Cover 1 Half-Title 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of Figures and Tables 8 Foreword from the Editors 10 Preface from Mercator Stiftung 12 1 The Economies of Urban Diversity: An Introduction 14 Part 1 Theoretical and Conceptual Insights 38 2 The Concept of Diversity in Migration and Urban Studies 39 3 Plurality, Cosmopolitanism, and Integration: The Dangers of Comparing the Incomparable 59 Part 2 Population Flows Affecting Istanbul and the Ruhr Area 75 4 From Guest Worker Migration to Transmigration: The German-Turkish Migratory Movements and the Special Role of Istanbul and the Ruhr 76 5 A Forgotten Chapter of Regional Social History: The Polish Immigrants to the Ruhr 1870–1939 104 Part 3 Legal and Institutional Frames of Ethnic Entrepreneurship 125 6 From a Multiethnic Empire to Two National States: The Economic Activities of the Greek Orthodox Population of Istanbul, ca. 1870–1939 126 7 Greek Orthodox Communities and the Formation of an Urban Landscape in Late Ottoman Istanbul 153 8 The Turkish Migrant Economy in Dortmund—An Economy of Urban Diversity 172 Part 4 Residential Segregation and New Inequalities 195 9 Residential Segregation of Turkish Migrants in the Ruhr Area—Reasons, Patterns, and Policies 196 10 European Istanbul and Its Enemies: Istanbul’s Working Class as the Constitutive Outside of the Modern/European Istanbul 221 11 Urban Space and Gentrifi cation in Istanbul in the Twentieth Century 238 Notes on Contributors 258 Index 262 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