abstract: 'Considering contemporary urban contexts, where housing precarity is an

  eminent problem for the urban working poor, this research asks how those

  employed as doorkeepers navigate everyday experiences of double

  precarity, i.e., the risk of being simultaneously fired and evicted.

  Doorkeepers in Istanbul are minimum-wage workers and internal migrants.

  Yet, unlike other low-wage employees, they live rent-free in basement

  apartments in return for serving their neighbors who are also their

  employers. Through the earthquake risk-driven urban transformation that

  necessitates demolition and reconstruction of more than 2,000 multi-unit

  buildings in Istanbul''s upper-middle income neighborhoods, doorkeepers

  are replaced with informal laborers or privatized outsourced services,

  and hence experience simultaneous job loss and involuntary displacement.

  Employing an ethnographic examination of these workers and their

  precarity management strategies, this research suggests that studying

  experiences of intersecting employment and housing market precarities

  allows us to extend our understanding of precarity beyond the labor

  market. More specifically, this research suggests that precarious labor

  processes are integral to housing precarity and should be studied in

  relation to both housing and shifting urban policies.'
affiliation: 'Bayurgil, L (Corresponding Author), Boston Univ, Dept Sociol, 100 Cummington
  Mall,Room 260, Boston, MA 02215 USA.

  Bayurgil, Ladin, Boston Univ, Boston, MA 02215 USA.'
author: Bayurgil, Ladin
author-email: ladinb@bu.edu
author_list:
- family: Bayurgil
  given: Ladin
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1093/socpro/spab013
earlyaccessdate: JUL 2021
eissn: 1533-8533
files: []
issn: 0037-7791
journal: SOCIAL PROBLEMS
keywords: 'precarity; service labor; involuntary displacement; urban

  transformation; Istanbul'
keywords-plus: WORK; LABOR; INSECURITY; JOB; CONSTRUCTION; INEQUALITY; LIMITS
language: English
month: OCT 11
number: '4'
number-of-cited-references: '72'
orcid-numbers: Bayurgil, Ladin/0000-0002-5120-6338
pages: 1092-1108
papis_id: 12427932eeb707d52e731ab44e6c6343
ref: Bayurgil2022firedevicted
times-cited: '0'
title: 'Fired and Evicted: Istanbul Doorkeepers'' Strategies of Navigating Employment
  and Housing Precarity'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000764467700001
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '1'
volume: '69'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2022'