The Economies of Urban Diversity: Ruhr Area and Istanbul [Hardcover]

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.1. The Economies of Urban Diversity: An Introduction; Darja Reuschke, Monika Salzbrunn and Korinna Sch?nh?rl PART I: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL INSIGHTS 2. The Concept of Diversity in Migration and Urban Studies; Monika Salzbrunn 3. Plurality, Cosmopolitanism, and Integration: The Dangers of Comparing the Incomparable; Edhem Eldem PART II: 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; Yunus Ulusoy 5. A Forgotten Chapter of Regional Social History: The Polish Immigrants to the Ruhr 1870-1939; Michaela Bachem-Rehm PART III: LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMES OF ETHNIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP 6. From a Multi-Ethnic Empire to Two National States: The Economic Activities of the Greek Orthodox Population of Istanbul, ca. 1870-1939; Maria Christina Chatziioannou and Dimitris Kamouzis 7. Greek Orthodox Communities and the Formation of an Urban Landscape in Late Ottoman Istanbul; Ay?e Ozil 8. The Turkish Migrant Economy in Dortmund  An Economy of Urban Diversity; Ivonne Fischer-Krapohl PART IV: RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION AND GENTRIFICATION PROCESSES 9. Residential Segregation of Turkish Migrants in the Ruhr Area - Reasons, Patterns and Policies; Darja Reuschke&amls6