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Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM) ; This paper focuses on socio-political dynamics in Israel in relation to increases in the irregular migration of non-Jewish workers, as well as refugees and asylum seekers from Africa. The main argument outlined here is that despite the significant ethnocentric ideologies and territorial controls that characterise Israel, the country is witnessing a significant influx of non-Jewish migrants, asylum seekers and refugees. The theoretical insight that stems from this paper is that the irregular migration of "foreigners" to Israel challenges Israeli politics of identity and attitudes towards the "Other", whilst simultaneously unveiling complexity in Israel's ethno-national identity and collective history.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- List of contributors -- 1 Introduction: cities in the Middle East: beyond "Middle Easternism -- 2 In the eyes of some Britons: Aleppo, a cosmopolitan city -- 3 The making of Tehran: the incremental encroachment of modernity -- 4 Dotting urban spaces: Jewish survival politics in current Casablanca -- 5 Queer urban movements in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: a comparative discussion -- 6 The home in the Middle Eastern city: a contact zone of contradictory memories and belonging in Jaffa -- 7 Gaza's historical cycles of prosperity and destruction: is the present an aberration? -- 8 Erasing memories of Palestine in settler-colonial urban space: the case of Haifa -- 9 Beersheba and the dynamics of a Palestinian city: Bedouin networks with Gaza, Jerusalem, and Istanbul -- 10 Understanding the materiality of suspicion: affective politics in MENA cities -- 11 Borders, boundaries, and frontiers: on Jerusalem's present geopolitics -- 12 "A Demarcation in the Hearts": everyday urban frontiers in Beirut -- 13 Tourism and urbanism in Iran: top-down and ad hoc developments in the Caspian region -- 14 The politics of building in post-Revolution Tehran -- 15 Revisiting Sana'a's urban planning and development challenges -- 16 Marrakesh: a fresh perspective - moving from form-based planning to a value-based approach -- 17 Securitisation of urban electricity supply: a political ecology perspective on the cases of Jordan and Lebanon -- 18 The rise of a Saharan city: urban development, tribal settlement, and political unrest in Laâyoune -- 19 Rethinking "building resilience": conflict and the Middle East city -- 20 Erasing palimpsest city: boom, bust, and urbicide in Turkey -- 21 Hebron: challenging the urbicide.

1. Remembering forgotten landscapes : community gardens in New York City and the reconstruction of cultural diversity / Efrat Eizenberg -- 2. Memory, recognition and the architecture of a diasporic place : the case of Netivot, Israel / Haim Yacobi -- 3. Neighbourhood and belonging : Turkish immigrant women constructing the everyday public space / Eda Unlu-Yucesoy -- 4. Memory, belonging and resistance : the struggle over place among the Bedouin-Arabs of the Naqab/Negev / Safa Abu-Rabia -- 5. One place - different memories : the case of Yaad and Miaar / Tovi Fenster -- 6. The reconstructed city as rhetorical space : the case of Volgograd / Elena Trubina -- 7. Seoul : city, identity and the construction of the past / Guy Podoler -- 8. "We shouldn't sell our country!" : the reconfiguration of Jewish urban property and ethno-national political discourses and projects in (post)socialist Romania / Damiana Gabriela Otoiu -- 9. Forgetting and remembering : Frankfurt's Altstadt after the second world war / Marianne Rodenstein -- 10. From "Patrimoine Partage" to "Whose Heritage"? : critical reflections on colonial built heritage in the city of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo / Johan Lagae.

Focusing on the immigration of upper-middle-class Palestinian families to the Israeli town of Upper-Nazareth, originally built by the state to enhance Jewish presence in the area, this paper frames the concept of decolonising gentrification. Accordingly, it studies a unique inconsistency between economic class and ethnonational hegemony, which enables upwardly Arab minority families to overcome ethnic barriers and to exercise social and spatial mobility. Therefore, this paper explains how these socio-political dynamics challenge the local settler-colonial aspects of urban development and enable the reappropriation of colonised urban space. Focusing on the case of Upper-Nazareth and its former 'Officers' Neighbourhood', we examine a distinctive contradiction between political power and economic abilities that triggers a unique case of gentrification, where the colonised minority gentrifies the colonising hegemony. At the same time, this decolonising gentrification, as we argue, takes place in restricted urban enclaves, and relies on an ethno-class price gap as it is only the minority upper-class who is willing to pay the increasing prices, due to their limited options. Therefore, as this paper shows, decolonising gentrification simultaneously challenges and recreates urban settler-colonialism, enabling limited market-oriented reappropriation while triggering ethnic-based accumulation and new forms of neoliberal exclusion.

One of the central issues in the study of urban politics today is the fact that many cities have become multicultural arenas. The liberal viewpoint stresses the potential of the city—unlike other spaces—to offer many and equal opportunities for all residents regardless of religion, gender, or ethnic affiliation, but the critical body of knowledge highlights the ways in which the city, although apparently released from the shackles of nation- and state-building projects, continues to reproduce existing power structures and is a stratifying place, maintaining patterns of discrimination, exclusion, and segregation. This tension between the city as an enabling space versus the city as a reinforcer of socionational stratification is at the center of this article.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Information about Contributors -- Introduction -- Whose Order, Whose Planning? -- Part I: Reshaping Terra Nullius -- 1 Contested Zionism - Alternative Modernism: Erich Mendelsohn and the Tel Aviv Chug in Mandate Palestine -- 2 The Flight of the Camel: The Levant Fair of 1934 and the Creation of a Situated Modernism -- 3 Mold -- 4 Horizontal Ideology, Vertical Vision: Oscar Niemeyer and Israel's Height Dilemma -- Part II: Frontiers -- 5 Trapped Sense of Peripheral Place in Frontier Space -- 6 The Political Construct of the 'Everyday': The Role of Housing in Making Place and Identity -- Part III: Mixed Spaces - Separated Places -- 7 Urban Iconoclasm: The Case of the 'Mixed City' of Lod -- 8 Planning to Conquer: Modernity and its Antinomies in the 'New-Old Jaffa' -- Part IV: Landmarks of Identity -- 9 Academia and Spatial Control: The Case of the Hebrew University Campus on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem -- 10 Re-Placing Memory -- 11 Geometrical Wounds: The Work of Zvi Hecker in Israel, 1990 and 2000 -- Part V: Place/Knowledge -- 12 On Belonging and Spatial Planning in Israel -- 13 Fragile Guardians: Nature Reserves and Forests Facing Arab Villages -- Epilogue -- 14 A Moment of Change? Transformations in Israeli Architectural Consciousness Following the 'Israeli Pavilion' Exhibition -- Index