Relational Multiscalar Analysis: A Comparative Approach to Migrants within City-Making Processes

To contribute to the growing literature on comparative urban research, this article speaks theoretical and methodological challenges that underlie recent calls for relational approaches city-making. The analysis we develop highlights multiscalar transformations of relations power across time space, which reconstitute life within changing historical conjunctures. offers a working vocabulary approach, together with illustrations drawn from our research three seemingly very different disempowered cities located in Germany, United States, Turkey. This methodology includes identification parameters. These parameters enabled exploration similar dynamics paradoxes interrelated key processes cities. Such dimensions might prove useful future work Our approach us explore ways migrants non-migrants can be understood as actors reconstituting city conjunctural brought about by neoliberal regeneration.