ABSTRACT
The conclusion challenges the framing of forced displacement as an exceptional crisis, advocating instead for a broader geo-temporal lens. Drawing on urban case studies from Berlin, Jaffa, and Tel Aviv, it shows how displacement shapes city life, political activism, and heritage. It highlights how refugee-led walking tours reclaim mobility as resistance – disrupting dominant narratives, surfacing erased histories, and reconfiguring belonging. Walking emerges as both a method and an activist practice, exposing tensions between commodified memory and tactical heritage-making. Ultimately, the conclusion advances a decolonial approach to urban space and transcultural memory, demonstrating how displaced persons contest the forces of nationalism, colonialism, and neoliberalism – not only surviving the city, but actively remaking it.
