‘Do Like You Did in Aleppo’: Negotiating Space and Place Among Syrian Musicians in Istanbul

Abstract The experiences of displaced musicians and the socio-cultural practices connected to them are marginalized in study refugee movements—especially new ones like Syrian crisis—subordinated explorations economic political structures affecting mobility, structural integration into host communities emergency settings camp. Concurrently, identity, sentiments belonging reimagining homeland common theoretical frameworks applied across literature. I argue that studying resettlement experience can offer a fresh perspective on how homemaking renegotiated displacement. explore this argument through particular case Istanbul because its transformation cultural center for Syrians Turkey. Through ethnographic fieldwork conducted with during summer 2018, reflect unique illuminate various conceptual related agency, space place.