ABSTRACT
Brief information on the two field surveys in Istanbul. Survey I: A Squatter Town in Istanbul: Umraniye (in Turkish, Erder 1996). The
focus of this study was mobility structures and networks of migrants in relation to informal housing and job markets. This field survey was conducted in one of the peripheral areas of Istanbul, Umraniye, where the transformation from a village to an urban site has taken place and where informal housing activities were intense.
