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{"title":"Women, Space, Resistance: Kurdish Refugee-Migrants' Narratives From Lavrio and Skaramagas Camps in Greece","authors":"Orkide Izci","doi":"10.1002/psp.70324","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70324","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Refugee camps have long been theorized as spaces of exception, where sovereign power reduces displaced people to what Agamben terms ‘bare life’. While this frame captures the violence of camp governance, it depicts refugee-migrants as passive and says little about how camp space is inhabited, contested and remade in everyday life, least of all from a gendered perspective. This article asks how the spatial and political organization of a camp shapes the sense of place and agency of Kurdish refugee-migrant women. It draws on ethnographic fieldwork: semi-structured interviews and participant observation conducted between 2017 and 2019 in two camps near Athens, both since closed: Lavrio, a self-organized Kurdish camp shaped by Abdullah Ocalan's paradigm of democratic confederalism; and Skaramagas, a multi-ethnic, state-led camp later abandoned to fragmented humanitarian management. In Lavrio, women drew on a political habitus rooted in autonomous resistance through direct participation in decision-making, communal organization, and the contestation of patriarchal norms, and turning the camp into a politically charged place of belonging, in sharp contrast to the depoliticized setting of Skaramagas. The article argues that a camp's spatial layout shapes social life without determining it: open, shared configurations can encourage encounter and a sense of community, while fragmented ones tend to discourage them, yet it is the camp's political organization that proves decisive in enabling women's agency, resistance and reconfigured gender relations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70324","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148408906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rethinking Studentification: Town-Gown Interaction in Small Cities Through Everyday Urban Experiences","authors":"Melis Oğuz Çevik,&nbsp;Selin Aslan Şenol,&nbsp;Burcu Soygüzeloğlu,&nbsp;Zeynep Özdemir,&nbsp;Aslı Altanlar","doi":"10.1002/psp.70323","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70323","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper repositions town-gown relations in small cities by focusing on the everyday urban experiences that shape them, rather than limiting them to the studentification perspective. Drawing on Amasya, Türkiye, as a case study, the research conducts 63 semi-structured interviews with local residents and small business owners across neighbourhoods with different levels of university influence. An AI-based content analysis identifies four specific dynamics: (1) the generation of substantial but seasonal economic uplift, concentrated along campus-city corridors; (2) rent inflation and tenure shifts that localise housing pressure in particular neighbourhoods; (3) ambivalent social change linked to greater intercultural contact and improved amenities coexisting with noise, norm frictions, and strains on place attachment, particularly in areas where students clusters; and (4) pragmatic routines and municipal measures that partially stabilise coexistence. These are conceptualised as “everyday town-gown dynamics”, not as an alternative theory to studentification, but as an analytical extension that foregrounds how student-led urban change is mediated through proximity, academic seasonality, routine encounters, and local governance capacities. The contribution presents a qualitative, multi-actor account that centres on routine accommodations and spatial range effects, with policy implications for managing near-campus intensification. This approach smooths seasonal volatility and aligns housing and retail planning with social cohesion, promoting a more cohesive community.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70323","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148364918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Concentration Patterns and Driving Factors of Urban Population Mobility in China","authors":"Bin Zhang,&nbsp;Hui Li,&nbsp;Miao David Chunyu,&nbsp;Jian Yin","doi":"10.1002/psp.70319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70319","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Population mobility serves as a critical carrier for resource factor allocation, contributing to global sustainable development. However, as population mobility trends towards complex networks, the application of spatiotemporal big data in the study of population mobility has not been fully explored. This study applies big data to analyze the spatial concentration patterns of urban population mobility in China. The structural features of the population mobility network are examined at both the national and urban agglomeration scales through complex network analysis. Furthermore, our study constructs an analytical framework to reveal the driving forces of population mobility. The results indicate that high-intensity mobility is concentrated in central and eastern China, with Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Suzhou, and Shanghai emerging as population inflow centers. Population mobility networks exhibit structural complexity and demonstrate a polycentric spatial structure. Urban population mobility shows regional agglomeration characteristics, with population mobility clusters corresponding to the spatial boundaries of urban agglomerations. The traffic accessibility negatively affects population mobility, whereas economic development levels exert no significant influence. Within urban agglomerations characterized by increasingly functional linkages, strengthening regional integration and improving transportation accessibility are crucial strategies. Our study expands research on population mobility and provides valuable insights for the formulation of population policy.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148462933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Why Do They Move? Different Patterns and Motivations of Intra-Urban Residential Mobility Among Two Major Ethnic Groups in Rome","authors":"Massimiliano Crisci,&nbsp;Stefania M. L. Rimoldi,&nbsp;Michele Santurro,&nbsp;Eleonora Trappolini","doi":"10.1002/psp.70320","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70320","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The study analyses the settlement patterns and residential mobility motivations of the two largest extra-EU migrant communities in Rome—Bangladeshis and Filipinos—combining unique individual-level population register data with an original survey data. Adopting an intra-urban and comparative perspective, it explores how sociodemographic characteristics, community background, and neighbourhood context shape (re)location patterns and underlying motivations. Results show distinct spatial trajectories: Bangladeshis display strong clustering in low-income peripheral areas, driven by ethnic attraction, affordability constraints, and the consolidation of enclave economies in small-scale trade. Filipinos, by contrast, exhibit greater spatial dispersion, associated with employment opportunities in domestic and care work within affluent households. While Bangladeshi residential concentration reflects both social support networks and structural barriers in the housing market, Filipino settlement patterns highlight employment-related mobility and long-term integration in a niche labour sector. The findings underline the interplay between individual preferences, own-group preferences, and structural constraints typical of Southern European housing and welfare regimes. By linking residential mobility to labour market segmentation and welfare transformations, the study contributes to a broader understanding of migrant settlement processes and spatial inequality in Southern European cities.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70320","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148364916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Late-Life Migration Among Older Chinese: Agency, Structure, and the Limits of Voluntariness","authors":"Yingqiu Chen,&nbsp;Louisa Buckingham","doi":"10.1002/psp.70321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70321","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Older migrants' migration decisions are shaped by both contextual and individual factors. Previous studies have tended to overlook the structural drivers of migration and the interaction between structural and agentic factors in migration decision-making. Drawing on a critical realist perspective, this study examines these factors and their interrelationships among 18 older Chinese migrants in New Zealand. Three key structural drivers were identified: migration opportunities, family-centred norms, and the long-term effects of China's One-Child Policy (OCP). Two agentic motivations were also evident: economic considerations related to pension access, and aspirations for intergenerational reciprocity. Operating across multiple levels, these structural and agentic factors interacted in complex ways to shape migration decisions, highlighting the limits of voluntariness in later-life migration. The findings demonstrate that migration decisions emerged not simply from individual preferences but from the interplay between personal agency and structural conditions, contributing to theorisations of late-life migration through an agency–structure lens.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70321","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Challenging the ‘Migration-for-Safety’ Narrative: Gendered Necropolitics, Affectivity and Resilience Across Women's Forced Journeys","authors":"Karolina Barglowski,&nbsp;Paula Wallmeyer","doi":"10.1002/psp.70315","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70315","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article challenges the ‘migration-for-safety’ narrative by examining how women fleeing coercive contexts encounter violence as a cross-border continuum in Germany. Following on the concept of necropolitics, it demonstrates how hierarchies of human worth are reproduced through the continuum of violence, foregrounding its affective dimensions. The analysis traces affectivity as a technology of domination and as a resource for care and resistance among migranticized women. Drawing on in-depth interviews with migranticized women, the analysis identifies three themes: (1) seeking security within shifting expectations of safety; (2) invisibilization and struggles for recognition; and (3) imposed (im)mobility and changing care networks. These findings demonstrate how gendered necropolitics operate across borders and scales, sustaining the debilitation of ‘refugee women’ while also revealing their situated forms of resistance and care. Linking necropolitics, the continuum of violence and affectivity, the article shows how domination and resistance are co-constituted in everyday life transcending liberal/authoritarian divides.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148364915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intergenerational Care and Intersecting Inequalities Among Transnational Families in Europe","authors":"Ruth Evans,&nbsp;Rosa Mas Giralt,&nbsp;Eleonore Kofman","doi":"10.1002/psp.70317","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70317","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This special issue has a central focus on <i>intergenerational spaces of care</i>, which have been rather under-explored in studies of transnational families to date. In this introduction, we outline the potential innovative contribution of <i>care ethics</i> to understanding intergenerational caring relations within and across borders, showing how several papers in the special issue are enriched by this conceptual framing. The special issue also advances understandings of the <i>intersecting inequalities</i> that may marginalise different generations of transnational families. Such structural inequalities are often embedded within increasingly restrictive im/mobility regimes that characterise contemporary migration landscapes in Europe and beyond, within the wider global context of ‘crisis’-driven displacement and post-pandemic times. We call for a relational, intergenerational understanding of care and intersecting inequalities in transnational families. Future research needs to ensure children's and young people's perspectives are included, involve multiple generations to produce relational family analyses, and to connect studies of transnational families with those on family caring relations more generally. Finally, this special issue shows the harms caused by restrictive immigration, care and welfare regimes and the need for policies to be based on more expansive, non-normative definitions of ‘family’ that recognise the significance of transnational family care in filling gaps within sedentary welfare regimes and enabling different generations to live ‘care-filled lives’.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148364913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Inter-Municipal Residential (Im)mobility and Settlement Patterns of Selected Foreign Communities in Six Italian Metropolitan Cities: A (Pseudo) Longitudinal Analysis (2011−2021)","authors":"Federico Benassi,&nbsp;Alessio Buonomo,&nbsp;Raffaele Ferrara,&nbsp;Rosaria Simone,&nbsp;Salvatore Strozza","doi":"10.1002/psp.70292","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70292","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This contribution examines the patterns of (im)mobility and settlement structures of the 15 largest foreign communities residing in Italy in 2011. The analysis draws on original data from the most recent population censuses (2011 and 2021), focusing on the heterogeneity of (im)mobility dynamics, settlement geographies and their interactions across six metropolitan capitals representative of the North (Turin and Milan), the Centre (Florence and Rome) and the South (Naples and Palermo) of the country. The findings highlight distinctive features that reflect broader territorial inequalities and illustrate the complexity of spatial adaptation processes among immigrant communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70292","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148364917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Countdown: Timespaces of Deadlines and Displacement","authors":"Tone Sommerfelt,&nbsp;Simon Turner","doi":"10.1002/psp.70318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70318","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines how politically structured deadlines and their accompanying countdowns generate dynamics of displacement by shaping anticipations of violence and prompting accelerated migration. Drawing on ethnographic research on Burundi's 2015 third-term crisis and The Gambia's 2017 electoral impasse, we show how constitutional deadlines became timespace devices— instruments of temporal power that condensed speculations about danger, suspended ordinary relations to place and compelled anticipatory spatial decisions. Developing the concept of timespace, we conceptualise displacement not only as a reaction to violence but as an anticipatory practice shaped by the entanglement of approaching futures, remembered pasts and rapidly evolving presents: one in which people assess risks, map geographies of safety and make decisions, more or less urgently, about staying or leaving. By interrogating the timespace dimensions of politically structured deadlines, we argue that such deadlines are not merely temporal markers but mechanisms that progressively narrow open horizons of expectation into affective thresholds of anticipation, bearing unequally on differently positioned people and generating divergent anticipatory logics within a shared timespace of urgency. Situating these dynamics within broader debates in migration and displacement studies, the article calls for closer attention to the temporalities of anticipation and the social life of deadlines as forces shaping mobility and collective experience.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70318","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148324481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Collective Nostalgia and Imagined Homeland: Emotional Geographies of Akhaltsikhe Among Muslim Meskhetians","authors":"Ekaterine Pirtskhalava,&nbsp;Ina Shanava","doi":"10.1002/psp.70322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70322","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Collective nostalgia is a defining force in shaping the imagined homeland of Muslim Meskhetians, a community whose emotional attachment to Akhaltsikhe persists across borders, regimes, and generations. Based on multi-sited qualitative research conducted in the United States (2012, 2014, and 2025) and Georgia (2017–2018), this article analyzes how Akhaltsikhe is remembered, felt, and symbolically inhabited by four generational cohorts who have experienced displacement differently. The findings show that the homeland functions not as a fixed geographical place but as an emotional and moral landscape sustained through inherited stories, ritual practices, domestic traditions, and embodied postmemory. Older generations evoke Akhaltsikhe as a site of rupture and dispossession; middle generations articulate it as an unfulfilled promise of return shaped by political exclusion; while younger generations relate to it as a symbolic point of origin they have never seen yet continue to protect through cultural practices and familial narratives.</p>\u0000 <p>A key contribution of this study is the comparative analysis of two groups rarely examined together: Muslim Meskhetians repatriated to Georgia and those resettled in the United States. While repatriated families often experience Akhaltsikhe as a painful proximity—“near yet unreachable” due to legal, social, and political barriers—U.S.-based Meskhetians imagine it as an idealized, purified homeland free from conflict. These divergent emotional geographies reveal how the same place can generate contrasting affective meanings depending on structural conditions of belonging and exclusion.</p>\u0000 <p>By integrating theories of collective nostalgia, imagined communities, and cultural memory, the article argues that Akhaltsikhe endures as a moral anchor and a transgenerational emotional horizon. It remains a homeland carried in memory rather than lived in space—sustaining diasporic identity across time, distance, and political uncertainty, even when physical return remains limited, contested, or impossible.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148324681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}