The Economies of Urban Diversity [electronic resource] : Ruhr Area and Istanbul /
Reuschke, D.editor.
Salzbrunn, M.editor.
Schönhärl, K.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Foreword from the Editors; Preface from Mercator Stiftung; 1 The Economies of Urban Diversity: An Introduction; Part 1 Theoretical and Conceptual Insights; 2 The Concept of Diversity in Migration and Urban Studies; 3 Plurality, Cosmopolitanism, and Integration: The Dangers of Comparing the Incomparable; Part 2 Population Flows Affecting Istanbul and the Ruhr Area; 4 From Guest Worker Migration to Transmigration: The German-Turkish Migratory Movements and the Special Role of Istanbul and the Ruhr
5 A Forgotten Chapter of Regional Social History: The Polish Immigrants to the Ruhr 1870-1939Part 3 Legal and Institutional Frames of Ethnic Entrepreneurship; 6 From a Multiethnic Empire to Two National States: The Economic Activities of the Greek Orthodox Population of Istanbul, ca. 1870-1939; 7 Greek Orthodox Communities and the Formation of an Urban Landscape in Late Ottoman Istanbul; 8 The Turkish Migrant Economy in Dortmund-An Economy of Urban Diversity; Part 4 Residential Segregation and New Inequalities
9 Residential Segregation of Turkish Migrants in the Ruhr Area-Reasons, Patterns, and Policies10 European Istanbul and Its Enemies: Istanbul's Working Class as the Constitutive Outside of the Modern/European Istanbul; 11 Urban Space and Gentrifi cation in Istanbul in the Twentieth Century; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Labor economics.
Urban economics.
Small business.
Entrepreneurship.
Regional economics.
Spatial economics.
Labor Economics.
Urban Economics.
Small Business.
Entrepreneurship.
Regional/Spatial Science.