City Margins and Exclusionary Space in Contemporary Egypt : An Urban Ethnography of a Syrian Refugee Community in a Remote Low-Income Cairo Neighborhood

City Margins and Exclusionary Space in Contemporary Egypt : An Urban Ethnography of a Syrian Refugee Community in a Remote Low-Income Cairo Neighborhood

Drawing mainly on Lefebvre’s, Soja’s and Smith’s theorizations of space in order to understand the spatial dynamics of social inequality, this study investigates how a low-income Syrian refugee community negotiates its precarious location in a neighborhood on the periphery of one of Cairo’s desert ‘...

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Main Author: Shalabi, Samir
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för Asien-, Mellanöstern- och Turkietstudier 2017
Subjects:
Egypt
Syria
Cairo
6th of Uktūbar City
inequality
refugees
refuge
space
spatial
urban
city
neighborhood
justice
marginality
exclusion
locality
uneven development
ethnography
Humanities and the Arts
Humaniora och konst
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-159720

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