This article explores the dynamics of urban migration and the politics of integration in mid-eighteenth-century Istanbul, both on the government policy-level and through the unofficial grass-roots processes. With a special focus on an inspection register (dated 1158/1745) detecting immigrants physically dwelling in the neighbourhoods (mahalles), I reveal that whereas the government policy for migration management hinged on the neighbourhood units which spatially organized the city’s inhabitants, each neighbourhood was an arena of social ties and relations, through the intermediary of which illegal immigrants would be transformed into legal residents who would live up to the norms of local society.

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在敌意和好客之间：伊斯坦布尔的社区和城市移民动态（1730-54）

本文探讨了 18 世纪中叶伊斯坦布尔的城市移民动态和融合政治，无论是在政府政策层面还是通过非官方的基层进程。特别关注检查登记册（日期为 1158/1745）检测实际居住在社区（mahalles）的移民，我透露，虽然政府的移民管理政策取决于在空间上组织城市居民的社区单位，但每个社区都是一个社会联系和关系的舞台，通过这些中介，非法移民将转变为符合当地社会规范的合法居民。