www.ssoar.info Being Accommodated, Well Then? ‘Scalar Narratives’ on Urban Transformation and Asylum Seekers’ Integration in Mid-Sized Cities Meier, Sabine Veröffentlichungsversion / Published Version Zeitschriftenartikel / journal article Empfohlene Zitierung / Suggested Citation: Meier, S. (2018). Being Accommodated, Well Then? ‘Scalar Narratives’ on Urban Transformation and Asylum Seekers’ Integration in Mid-Sized Cities. Urban Planning, 3(4), 129-140. https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v3i4.1670 Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Dieser Text wird unter einer CC BY Lizenz (Namensnennung) zur This document is made available under a CC BY Licence Verfügung gestellt. Nähere Auskünfte zu den CC-Lizenzen finden (Attribution). For more Information see: Sie hier: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.de Urban Planning (ISSN: 2183–7635) 2018, Volume 3, Issue 4, Pages 129–140 DOI: 10.17645/up.v3i4.1670 Article Being Accommodated, Well Then? ‘Scalar Narratives’ on Urban Transformation and Asylum Seekers’ Integration in Mid-Sized Cities Sabine Meier Faculty of Education, Architecture and Arts, University of Siegen, 57076 Siegen, Germany; E-Mail:
[email protected] Submitted: 1 July 2018 | Accepted: 23 August 2018 | Published: 20 December 2018 Abstract This article deals with the interplay between the rescaling processes of cities and pathways of asylum seekers’ integra- tion. Building on scale theory and employing a downscaled mid-sized city in the Netherlands as a unit of analysis, two research questions are answered. Firstly, what kind of urban planning strategies do urban authorities of downscaled, mid- sized cities develop to rescale their cities? Secondly, how are these strategies related to the imagined pathways of asylum seeker integration? Here, the term ‘scale’ does not refer to an absolute ‘spatial object’ that is able to affect social reality.