“…As Arendt (1943, cited in Loick, 2016) once suggested, “refugees driven from country to country represent the vanguard of their peoples”, since they have already experienced “the violence, fragility, and historical obsolescence of a territorial understanding of citizenship”, as opposed to a vast number of citizens who never see the flip side of the coin. It is hence crucial to the refugee studies literature to focus further on the place-making/reterritorialisation experiences of urban refugees in their new places of settlement and their interaction with the locals so to challenge the legal, political, cultural, and social limits of refugee regimes and discover more effective policies to deal with the refugee reality as it has also been underlined by the work of other scholars working on Syrian refugees in Turkey (Acara and Özdemir, 2022; Şengül, 2022; Saraçoğlu and Belanger, 2021). At the same time, however, as has been partially depicted in this paper, the already vulnerable host communities also need to be supported in their hosting experiences.…”