Book review: Ethnography and the City: Readings on Doing Urban Fieldwork

Ege, Moritz

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“…The ethnographic research was used to explore how IDPs make sense of their settlement and the urban context in which they are situated. This required that the researcher 'be there', involved in intensive observation and consistent interaction with people (Ocejo, 2013 ). Therefore multi-modal ethnographic research was conducted in both settlements (Aru et al ., 2017 ), where data were collected based on (1) the observation of people, settlement, and practices going in these settlements; and (2) informal exchanges and interviews with IDPs, other urban residents and key stakeholders.…”

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LIVING ON THE MARGINS: The Socio‐spatial Representation of Urban Internally Displaced Persons in Ethiopia

Regasa¹,

Godesso²,

Lietaert³

2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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In cities in the global South, internally displaced persons (IDPs) often end up in marginalized places created by uneven processes of urbanization. While IDPs experience similar disadvantages to the urban poor living in these places, they face additional vulnerabilities related to their displacement. Building on insights from urban studies and forced migration studies, we argue in this article that a multidimensional understanding of urban marginality is a useful analytical lens with which to examine the conditions of urban IDPs. Based on multi‐sited ethnographic research in Kersa and Sululta IDP settlements of Ethiopia, this study reveals how IDPs experience similar spatial, social and symbolic marginality in different urban contexts. Our findings show the relational manifestation of segregation, social distance and stigmatization that impede IDPs’ access to urban space and services. This study also highlights how these dimensions of marginality interact and reproduce an additional layer of marginality. Our research suggests the need for inclusive urban governance in which IDPs contribute to and benefit from urbanization as citizens.

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